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Website says female Kurdish activist at risk of "imminent execution".

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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Text of report in English by Iranian pro-reform, English-language website The Green Voice of Freedom on 29 June

GVF, 29 June: The Iranian Judiciary should immediately suspend all execution sentences of political prisoners and initiate a thorough and independent review of these cases, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said yesterday.

Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian, 27, faces imminent execution, as her case has reached the final implementation stage. In addition to Jalalian, at least fifteen other Kurdish political prisoners are on the death row.

"We are appealing to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay to intervene …

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