Imminent Risk of Execution: Majeed Ibrahim Hamo and Saeed Khalil

This Urgent Action is about Majeed Ibrahim Hamo and Saeed Khalil who are at risk of imminent execution. One of them told his family that he was innocent, but confessed because he was tortured: he was burned with cigarettes all over his body and broke a shoulder.

Full information from Amnesty HERE.


The below is an email I sent today to President Mas'ud Barzani of the Kurdish Regional Government. The address AI gave didn't work for me, so I used instead the contact form on the Kurdish Regional Government's website. Using that form I sent copies to Prime Minister Nechirvan Idris Barzani and Minister for Human Rights Dr Yousif M. Aziz.

The Minister for Justice Farooq Jamil Sadiq can apparently be reached via email dad at mojkurdistan.com, and the Minister for the Interior Osman Hajy Mohamood via interior_minister_sul at yahoo.com. I sent them copies, too.

Salutations throughout: Your Excellency

To
President Mas'ud Barzani
Kurdish Regional Government

From
Ole Koksvik

Your Excellency,

My name is Ole Koksvik, I am a Norwegaian citizen, and a permanent resident of Australia. I am a PhD student at the Australian National University.

I am writing to expressing my grave concern that Majeed Ibrahim Hamo and Saeed Khalil are at risk of imminent execution. I am convinced that the death penalty is an atrocity, something that subverts and undermines our very humanity.

Moreover, I am deeply concerned because these death sentences were imposed in judicial proceedings that appear to be in violation of international fair trial standards. I urging you to commute the death sentences of both men, and I ask that you ensure that an investigation
is conducted into the allegations of torture and ill-treatment.

I understand that it is your right and duty to try those accused of violent crimes, but defendants must be given fair trials. This cannot be compromised.

I thank you kindly for reading this letter and taking the time to consider my concerns.

Sincerely,

Ole Koksvik