499 suppressive schemes, 10,000 arrests, 40,000 legal files
IRGC Colonel Manouchehr Amanollahei, commander of the Kermanshah Province suppressive security force, declared that in just the past six months, this force has arrested 10,000 people in this province. He also acknowledged that in this same period he has implemented 499 suppressive schemes dubbed “improving province’s public security”. He went on to add that “one thousand missions are carried out in province’s security jurisdiction every 24 hours”.
This criminal revolutionary guard stated that these arrests are part and parcel of these schemes and 40,000 legal dossiers have been filed in various police branches in Kermanshah Province. In addition to the security forces, the IRGC, the intelligence ministry, and dozens of other suppressive bodies freely arrest a large number of citizens and detain them in official detention centers or the detention centers of these bodies.
Amanollahei stated that these measures create “security and peace” and are indicative of the “power of police” and other suppressive bodies that according to this head henchman are “effective apparatuses in the realm of order and security”.
A week earlier, IRGC Brigadier General Hossein Ashtari, regime’s commander of the security forces, had threatened that the security forces will “confront mal-veiling and those who do not adhere to Islamic dignity”.
These arbitrary and widespread arrests are not limited to Kermanshah Province and the arrest of political, women’s and labor rights activists, as well as teachers, students, religious and ethnic minorities, social media netizens, and participants in social protests, continues.
Many of these arrests and prison sentences are carried out upon absurd charges such as “insulting the supreme leader”, “propaganda against the system” and “acting against national security” and their objective is to create an atmosphere of fright and oppression and to prevent social uprisings.
The Iranian Resistance expresses sympathy with the families of prisoners and urges the Iranian people, especially the youth, to protest these arbitrary arrests and to support the families of prisoners.
The Iranian Resistance calls on international human rights bodies to condemn mass, arbitrary arrests in Iran and calls for immediate measures by the international community to make economic relations with the Iranian regime contingent on the cessation of the executions and improvement in the human rights.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 5, 2015
