2 Kurd journalists get death sentence
From Times Wire Reports
The Iranian judiciary confirmed that two journalists from the country’s Kurdish minority have been sentenced to death, state media reported.
The two men, Adnan Hassanpour and Hiva Butimar, were sentenced on the charge of moharebeh, a term Iran uses to describe a major crime against Islam and the state, judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi told the Islamic Republic News Agency. The word means “fighting.”
IRNA did not specify the action that led to the accusations.
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