Farhad Vakili is an Iranian
Kurdish
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*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish language
** Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji)
**Central Kurdish (Sorani)
**Southern Kurdish
** Laki Kurdish
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern ...
activist, who has been
sentenced to death
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by an
Islamic Revolutionary Court
Islamic Revolutionary Court (), also known as the Revolutionary Tribunal (''Dadgahha-e Enqelab''Bakhash, Shaul, ''Reign of the Ayatollahs'', Basic Books, 1984, p.59-61) is a special system of courts in the Islamic Republic of Iran designed to try ...
, for allegedly being a member of the armed group, the
Kurdistan Workers Party
The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or the PKK, isDespite the PKK's 12th Congress announcing plans for total organisational dissolution, the PKK has not yet been dissolved de facto or de jure. a Kurdish militant political organization and armed gu ...
(PKK).
The
Child Rights Information Network
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called Vakili's trial a "grossly flawed process that fell far short of international standards for a fair trial."
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Iranian Kurdish people
Iranian activists
People killed in protests in Iran
Executed Iranian people by the Islamic Republic of Iran
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