Regimes agents in Iranian Kurdistan threaten to slaughter political activists

Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi

Based on reports from the Organization of the defense of Human Rights in Kurdistan (ODHRK), a group of activists and journalists who were involved in the string of anti-regime demonstrations in July 2005 have all received death threats from the regimes agents.

Loghmawn Mohri, Roya Toloii, Sheerkou Jahani, Saman Rasoul-pour, Ejlal Ghavami, Madh Ahmadi and Mohammad-Sadiq Kaboudvand, who himself is the director of the ODHRK, have received phone calls threatening their and their families lives. Mohri, who was sentenced to 5 years in prison in the wake of the 2005 demonstrations and is waiting on his appeals hearing, said: "I truly fear for my life. These telephone threats have begun to really shake me and my family to the core...they come at all hours. I would like to hold the members of the security and police authorities responsible for our safety and remind them that if anything happens to us that they will be answerable."