Uncertainty surrounds fate of Latifi

There have been developments in Iran in the case of Iranian student activist Habibollah Latifi, who was due to be executed in Sanandaj prison in north western Iran this morning. An official prison source says he will not now be executed, and that his family can visit him immediately.

A member of the Kurdish minority, he was arrested in 2007 and accused of being a member of the Kurdish Independent Life party, an armed opposition group, but he has always denied this.

His family says this is nonsense and that Tehran is just angered by his student political activities.

Amnesty International says his trial was held behind closed doors, and Latifi was not allowed to have a lawyer to represent him, in clear violation of articles 10 and 11 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. At the very least, says Amnesty, he should be given a new, fair trial.

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