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Iran regime mass executed 12 prisoners in Karaj Central Prison

At the dawn on Saturday, August 27, 2016, in a collective mass execution in Karaj Central Prison, northwest of the capital Tehran, the criminal regime of mullahs hanged 12 prisoners all at once. 

These 12 prisoners had been transferred to the solitary confinement on Wednesday of last week. One of these 12 prisoners was transferred from another prison in the same city to be executed alongside others.
From the 12 executed, 9 have been identified and their names are; Alireza Madadpour, Bahman Rezaie, Arman Bahrami, Alireza Asadi, Mohsen Eslami, Hossein Bayrami, Mehdi Rostami, Amir Sarkhah and Alireza Sarkhah.
A large group of people, including family and friends of the prisoners gathered outside the prison on Thursday Aug. 25 calling for the annulment of the death sentence of their loved ones.
UN Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed on Friday, Aug. 26 called on Iran to immediately halt the mass execution of these 12 prisoners in Karaj Central Prison. He expressed regret that the death sentences in Iran ruled mullahs are inconsistent with the international rules and covenants as “most serious crimes”.
According to Ahmad Shaheed this sentence contradicts the “International Covenant on Political and Civil Rights.”
“It is regrettable that the Government continues to proceed with executions for crimes that do not meet the threshold of the ‘most serious crimes’ as required by international law, especially the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Iran is State party. It is also troubling that courts continue to issue death sentences in trials that not only breach international fair trial standards but even domestic due process guarantees,” Ahmed Shaheed stressed.
The UN expert noted serious concern regarding the Iranian authorities’ continuing reliance on drug-related executions as means to deter crimes, and stressed that various Iranian government officials have gone on record to acknowledge that executions have not been effective in the prevention of drug-related crimes.
The clerical regime ruling Iran facing a growing popular abhorrence from the public following the surfacing of an audio tape revealing a small corner of the barbaric massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in the summer of 1988, has no other option than to continue executing and hanging Iranian people especially the youth to prevent a simmering popular upheaval and uprising of tens of millions of people frustrated of the cruelty and tyranny of the mullahs regime.
In a statement the Iranian Resistance calls on the Iranian people in general and youths in particular to protest the clerical regime’s repressive measures and mass executions, and support the families of the victims.
The Iranian Resistance reiterates that silence and inaction in the face of the growing trend of executions, embolden the religious fascism ruling Iran in continuing its suppression, torture and executions. The Iranian Resistance further urges the referral of the dossier of violations of human rights in Iran to the UN Security Council and convening of an international tribunal to examine the crimes of the Iranian regime, particularly the 1988 massacre of political prisoners. 

 

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