The mullahs’ anti-human regime on International Human Rights Day transferred 11 prisoners in Gohardasht prison to solitary confinement for execution and at dawn on Sunday December 11 hanged 10 of them.
At least 52 prisoners were executed in Iran in November. Among them, Shaban Ranjbar, after 20 years imprisonment in Rasht Central Prison and Gholam Hossein Beigi, after 18 years imprisonment in Khomein, were hanged on November 23 and 26 respectively.
Kazem Gharib Abadi, deputy head of the so-called international human rights unit of the regime, in support of this barbaric punishment said: “In some issues, Westerners want to impose their statements. For instance they do not accept the execution of drug dealers and say because we don’t have execution, others should not have it either. Is our situation of human rights worse than other countries that they put this much pressure? Our principled position on Country Special Rapporteur on Iran is that to reject the rapporteur”. (State run Mehr news agency December 11).
Ignoring the catastrophic situation of human rights in Iran by the international community and silence about mass and arbitrary executions has emboldened the religious fascism ruling Iran to continue its crimes. Any deal with this illegitimate regime must be contingent upon a halt to executions.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
21 Persian date Azar 1395 (December 11, 2016)
