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Businesses and shops in several cities in Kurdish-populated western Iran shut down Tuesday in a strike protesting the hanging a day earlier of four Kurds convicted of collaborating with Israel, activists said. The four, who had been arrested in July 2022, were hanged at a prison in the city of Karaj outside Tehran in defiance…
Businesses and shops in several cities in Kurdish-populated western Iran shut down Tuesday in a general strike protesting the hanging a day earlier of four Kurds convicted of collaborating with Israel, activists said. The four, who had been arrested in July 2022, were hanged at a prison in the city of Karaj outside Tehran in defiance of a campaign by rights groups who said their trial had been grossly unfair.
Businesses and shops in several cities in Kurdish-populated western Iran shut down Tuesday in a general strike protesting the hanging a day earlier of four Kurds convicted of collaborating with Israel, activists said.The Iranian judiciary said the four men were convicted of collaborating with Israel on a plan to sabotage an Iranian defence site in the central province of Isfahan.