NCRI – Prisoners in Ward 2 of Ghezel Hessar prison in the Iranian city of Karaj have joined nearly 3,000 prisoners in their hunger strike which began on November 25 following the execution of 11 prisoners.
Ghezel Hessar is the principal prison for inmates condemned to death. In this prison with a capacity of 8000 to 9000 prisoner, somewhere between 25000 to 27000 prisoners have been piled up with many of them on the death row. To facilitate mass hangings in this prison, the clerical regime has built stages for execution of 24 people at a time and every week secretly hangs a group of prisoners.
The executions are taking place as the P5+1 countries continue the policy of negotiation with the clerical regime ruling in Iran while being silent with regards to the barbaric violation of human rights and mass executions in Iran.
The Iranian Resistance calls on the UN Security Council, the Secretary-General, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and other relevant UN officials, as well as the European Union, the U.S. government, and other states to take urgent action to end the escalating trend of arbitrary and mass executions in Iran.