18 August 2008 :
an Iranian court sentenced to death a Kurdish student, Habibollah Latifi, his lawyer Nemat Ahmadi announced. Latifi is the third Iranian Kurd to receive a death sentence in less than a month. Six Iranian Kurds are now on death row. All have been convicted of 'endangering state security' and 'relations with illegal political organisations'.(Sources: AKI, 13/08/2008)
