NCRI – Freedom-loving Iranian-Canadians and Iranian Resistance supporters in Ottawa and Toronto held rallies on Saturday, January 16 protesting the upcoming visit by the Iranian regime’s president Hassan Rouhani to Europe. These protesters demonstrated in downtown Toronto and outside the Federal Parliament in Ottawa against gross human rights violations in Iran, especially horrific executions in Iran.
In the first 16 days of January, the mullahs’ inhumane regime in Iran has sent 53 prisoners, including 1 woman, to the gallows in various towns. Four of these prisoners were hanged in public and most of the prisoners were executed in groups.
The inhumane mullahs’ regime, unable to contain its domestic and international crises and finding itself incapable before the waves of popular protests by people in cities across Iran, especially those in poverty-stricken areas, sees the only solution to its in escalating crackdown measures.
The human rights situation has been deteriorating rapidly in Iran. More than 2,000 individuals have been executed during Hassan Rouhani’s tenure as President of the regime. This is the highest rate of executions in the past 25 years, and it reflects an increase over figures that had already secured Iran’s place as the nation with the most executions per capita.
On December 17, 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution strongly condemning the brutal and systematic violation of human rights in Iran, in particular the mass and arbitrary executions, increasing violence and discrimination against women and ethnic and religious minorities.
Following the adoption of the 62nd UN resolution censuring human rights abuses in Iran, the Iranian Resistance’s President-elect Maryam Rajavi called on the UN Security Council to hold the leaders of the clerical regime accountable and prosecute them for crimes against humanity. She underlined that this is a necessary step towards respecting the international community’s vote that condemned the systematic and flagrant violations of human rights in Iran.
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