Hossein Khezri (

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

حسین خضری) was an Iranian

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activist who was sentenced to death by the

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

ian Islamic Revolutionary Court in 2009. The charge against him was "waging war against God" due to his membership in the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK). He was arrested in Kermanshah in 2008 and held at the

Urmia Urmia or Orumiyeh ( fa, ارومیه, Variously transliterated as ''Oroumieh'', ''Oroumiyeh'', ''Orūmīyeh'' and ''Urūmiyeh''.) is the largest city in West Azerbaijan Province of Iran and the capital of Urmia County. It is situated at an alt ...

prison. Khezri was an unmarried

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who had dropped out of school in the eighth grade to support his family. He worked at a carpet weaving store where unsanitary conditions led to him losing 70% of his eyesight. He was executed on 15 January 2011, in Oroumieh, West Azarbaijan,

. Notably, his family and lawyer were not informed of his execution until after the sentence had been carried out.

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