Iran Human Rights, July 4: According to the site "Human rights activists in Iran" Mr. Davoud Abdollahi, convicted of spying and sentenced to death by a revolutionary court, was executed in Tehran’s Evin prison, on June 22, 2008. Mr. Abdollahi was arrested 9 years ago, and has been held in the Evin prison since 2006.
Iranian officials have not mentioned Mr. Abdollahi’s execution so far.
Amnesty International published the following report on Mr. Davoud Abdollahi Moghadam in June 2007:
29 June 2007
UA 164/07 Death penalty/Torture
IRAN Davoud Abdollahi Moghadam (m), aged 40, army colonel
Colonel Davoud Abdollahi Moghadam was sentenced to death by a military court in February 2007, and is now facing execution. The charges against him are reported to have been politically motivated, and the court proceedings appear to have fallen short of international fair trial standards.
Davoud Abdollahi Moghadam was detained on or around 26 February 2006 and reportedly spent 11 months solitary confinement in Tehran’s Evin Prison. The full details of the charges are not known, but they included spying and "transmitting state secrets to foreign interests". He reportedly "confessed" after ill-treatment and possibly torture.
He appealed against his sentence, and on around 11 June a higher military tribunal reportedly upheld the verdict. His case has still to go before the Supreme Court for a final appeal.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Torture has been used systematically in Iran for many years to extract information, and "confessions" are sometimes broadcast on television. Torture is facilitated by laws and procedures governing detention and interrogation which permit solitary confinement and prevent detainees having access to lawyers until the process of investigation is completed, and by the existence of parallel and sometimes informal institutions which run their own detention centres to which the judiciary has no access.