On the World Day against the Death Penalty
Maryam Rajavi called on Security Council to set up an international tribunal to try perpetrators of executions and killings in Iran
NCRI – On the World Day against the Death Penalty, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, once again called upon the UN Security Council to set up a tribunal to try those responsible for execution, torture and massacre in Iran under mullahs’ rule, especially the officials responsible for massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988. The perpetrators of this massive crime still occupy key political, military and judicial posts in the Iranian regime.
She added: Silence before this unprecedented crime in the contemporary history has encouraged the criminals ruling Iran to continue barbaric and systematic violation of human rights. Execution of prisoners including political prisoners has been going on throughout this year, and even today on the World Day against the Death Penalty, four prisoners including a woman were hanged in central prison of Zanjan.
Also, there are right now many political prisoners at risk of execution. Mrs. Farah (Almira) Vazehan and Messrs. Mohammad Ali Saremi, Jafar Kazemi, Mohammad Ali Haj Aghaei, Mohsen Daneshpour Moghaddam and his son Ahmad Daneshpour Moghaddam have been sentenced to death on the charge of ‘Mohareb’ (enemy of God) only because of being relatives of PMOI members in Ashraf or having visited Ashraf, Mrs. Rajavi said.
She noted: Setting up gallows in different cities, group executions, and widespread arrests of women and youth, bespeak of inability of the faltering regime in confronting growing protests and hatred among the Iranian people toward the clerical regime in its entirety.
Saluting political prisoners sentenced to death, she said: Bravery of these prisoners before the bloodthirsty regime and its courts’ verdicts indicates that the clerical regime has failed in confronting uprising of the Iranian people and their just demands and can no longer intimidate the Iranian people by execution and massacre.
Maryam Rajavi stressed that the time has come for the international community to boycott the mullahs’ regime not only for its nuclear projects but also for its barbaric violation of human rights. The international community, especially the European Union should impose comprehensive sanctions on this regime, its leaders and those responsible for execution, torture and massacre of the Iranian people.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 10, 2010