Cairo Center for Kurdish Studies expresses support to petition launched by NADA against death penalty

The Cairo Center for Kurdish Studies has expressed its support to the “No to death and Yes to Life” petition launched by the Democratic Women's Alliance (NADA) against the death penalty in Iran.

News Center- The Democratic Women's Alliance in the Middle East and North Africa (NADA), a women’s alliance consisting of more than 18 women’s organizations in MENA region, launched a petition called “No to Death and Yes to Free Life” to protest the death sentences handed down to Warisha Moradi, a Kurdish political prisoner and a member of the East Kurdistan Free Women Society (KJAR), and Pakhshan Azizi, Kurdish journalist and activist, and demand the release of all political prisoners in Iran.

 The Cairo Center for Kurdish Studies has released a written statement, announcing its support to the petition. The center condemned all the unjust sentences against activists and protesters in the Islamic Republic of Iran and called on international human rights organizations to put pressure on Iran to stop the executions.