Reporting by PMOI/MEK
Iran, July 6, 2020—According to the monthly report of the Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM) on June 30, the Iranian regime has executed 22 people last month.
“One of them was Hedayat Abdollahpour, a Kurdish political prisoner and father of two who was on death row based on false charges since 2018,” the report reads.
The family of Abdollahpour were informed in June that he was executed a few weeks before in secret.
Also, the Iranian regime’s Supreme Court has upheld death sentences issued for political prisoners Amir Hossein Moradi, 26, Saied Tamjidi, 28, and Mohammad Rajabi, 26, who were arrested, placed under horrific torture for taking part in the November 2019 uprising.
U.S. State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus in a tweet on June 25 strongly condemned the death sentence and called on the Iranian regime to “respect human rights and stop these executions”.
Also, Mohammed Reza Habibi, the Head of the Justice Department Isfahan Province warned Iranians that if major protesters such as in 2009, January 2018 and November 2019 erupt again, we will “deal decisively with rioters” and added that “eight trials have finished and those involved have been sentenced for corruption on earth”
According to the Iran HRM report, the Iranian regime flogged five political prisoners and dissidents in June. The flogging sentence for Mohamamd Bagher Souri, detained during the nationwide November 2019 protests, was carried out on June 8 in the Great Tehran Penitentiary, also known as Fashafuyeh Prison.
The Iranian regime’s courts continued to hand down flogging sentences for peaceful activism. Rasoul Taleb Moghadam, a Tehran bus driver, was lashed 74 times for taking part in a peaceful Labor Day gathering last year outside the regime’s Parliament on June 1.
Also, a court sentenced 42 workers in the western city of Arak to lashes and prison for demanding their unpaid wages in a protest.
At the same time a “Revolutionary Court” in southwestern Iran sentenced a student to eight years in prison and 74 lashes for protesting against the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane by the Revolutionary Guard (IRGC). The 1st Branch of the Revolutionary Court in Shiraz sentenced Siavosh Nourozi Jafarlou to seven years in prison for “assembly and collusion with the intention of disrupting internal security” and “insulting the leader Ali Khamenei.”
Moreover, the Iran HRM also reported that at least two prisoners have been tortured to death in the month of June. According to this report Iran’s prisons are dangerously overcrowded during the though coronavirus pandemic and in several prisons and jails the virus has rapidly spread and basic protocols to prevent the virus from spreading were ignored.
Some of prisoners who have contracted COVID-19 complained that they were not getting enough food and water while quarantined, and that they did not have access to doctors, temperature checks, basic medicine, regular showers, or sanitary supplies.
On Sunday, July 5, the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced that over 65,900 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 342 cities checkered across all of Iran’s 31 provinces
On June 15, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) called for an international fact-finding mission to visit Iran’s prisons and meet with the inmates, especially political prisoners, and called for immediate action by the United Nations Secretary-General, the Human Rights Council and Commissioner, and relevant special rapporteurs, along with international human rights organizations to save the lives of political prisoners in Iran.
