According to human rights sources, two Kurd prisoners identified as Loqman and Zaniar Moradi were previously sentenced to public hanging on charges of enmity with God and killing the son of the head of the Marivan Friday Prayers by the 15^th branch of the Revolutionary Court headed by Judge Salavati. Rajayi Prison officials verbally announced to them in the past few days that their sentence had been upheld by the Supreme Court.“Last week, officials of the Rajayi Shahr Prison told these two Kurd prisoners that their sentences were upheld in the Supreme Court”, this source said.“Loqman Moradi confirmed this report in a short phone call to his family and said that he was shocked from the news and in light of the fact that he had not received a written confirmation, hoped that [this was only a measure] to intimidate him”, the source added.This source said that the lawyer of these two political prisoners had expressed surprise over the news and had told their families that the sentence had not been officially announced to him and that he would go to Tehran to pursue the case next week. (Student Committee in Defense of Political Prisoners, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran