According to reports from inside Iran, the status of political prisoner Habibollah Latifi in captivity in Sannadaj Prison is still uncertain after 6 years of imprisonment.
In October 2007, Habib Latifi, then a student at a University in Ilam, capital of the majority Kurdish province of Kurdistan, was arrested and imprisoned by Iranian authorities during an anti-government protest. The authorities accuse him of being a member of a Kurdish armed separatist group and therefore an “enemy of God” in 2007. After 6 years in captivity, Habib Latifi could be hanged any day, and there has been no change in his status yet.
The Iranian authorities have kept this prisoner under the threat of execution to psychologically affect him and other prisoners and to prevent any protest in the prisons, a general sense that is recently spreading inside prisons.