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Iran: Executions continue at alarming rate

Reporting by PMOI/MEK

Iran, April 18, 2021—The inhuman clerical regime ruling Iran continues its killing spree with another wave of brutal executions. On Tuesday, regime authorities executed Sohrab Mesgari, a prisoner in Gonbad-e Qabus prison, after four years of imprisonment.

On Monday, April 12, authorities in Qazvin prison executed Hossein Ramezani, 37, after five years of imprisonment.

On the same day, the clerical regime hanged Mohsen Mahdavian, 26, and Mehrdad Jalali, 40, in the central prison of Karaj after they had served four and five years in prison, respectively. A few days earlier, Ramazan-Ali Shahroudi, 35, was hanged in the same prison.

In Birjand prison, Arsalan Moradi, a resident of Divandarreh (Kurdistan Province), was hanged in on Monday. On April 10, Youssef Rashou Hashtian and Morteza Kabiri were executed in Urmia and Isfahan’s central prisons, respectively. On Thursday, April 8, two more prisoners were executed in Babol prison after serving seven-and-half years in prison.

Iran has the world’s highest number of executions per capita. According to Iran Human Rights Monitor, at least 255 persons were executed last year. Since the beginning of 2021, the regime has executed 84 people, and at least 90 juvenile offenders are on death row in Iran.

Iran’s current Judiciary Chief is Ebrahim Raisi, notoriously renowned for his leading role in the “Death Commissions” of 1988, consisting of a trio of officials acting as judges and sending 30,000 political prisoners to the gallows after minutes-long trials.

Since his appointment in 2019, the regime has increased the atmosphere of fear and repression through executions and arrests of political activists.

On April 13, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) called on the United Nations Secretary-General, the UN Human Rights Council, and its High Commissioner, as well as other human rights organizations and the European Union, to take immediate measures to save the lives of death row prisoners.

The NCRI also called for an international fact-finding mission to visit Iran prisons and meet with prisoners, in particular political prisoners. The clerical regime’s human rights dossier must be referred to the UN Security Council for its flagrant and systematic violations of human rights, the NCRI stressed, adding that the leaders of this regime must be brought to justice for four decades of crimes against humanity.

 

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