Iran's Supreme Court on Friday upheld a death sentence issued against a Sunni Muslim cleric for "enmity against God”, Arabic TV channel al-Arabiya reported.
Shahram Ahmadi, a prisoner of conscience, was arrested in April 2009 and held in solitary confinement for 33 months in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, before being transferred to Rajai Shahr prison in the nearby city of Karaj.
He has been granted few visits from his family, which lives in the western Iranian city of Sanandaj.
Ahmadi who was shot during his time in detention, has kidney and bowel problems and his health as deteriorated during his years in jail, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA).
In 2012, his younger brother, Bahram Ahmadi, was executed, along with five other Sunni preachers.
