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Iran: 43 hangings, death sentences since Ahmadinejad’s election

Hanging nooseMrs. Rajavi urges world community to take urgent action to stop frenzied executions in Iran

NCRI, August 23 – Since the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the mullahs’ inhuman regime has resorted to a frenzied wave of public hangings and death decrees to create an atmosphere of terror and intimidation in a bid to counter the explosive state of society.

The state-controlled media reported seven death sentences just in the past three days. These bring the number of prisoners hanged since June 26, 2005, immediately after Ahmadinejad’s elections, to 20. The number of those sentenced to death during the same period stands at 23. At least five victims were below the age of 18 at the time of their execution or when the alleged offense took place. Three victims were women.

The hangings and death sentences were in Tehran, Karaj (west of the capital), Arak and Isfahan (central Iran), Hamedan and Pol-e Dokhtar (west) Mashad (northeast), Salmas and Ardebil (northwest), Kerman and Bandar Abbas (south) Gonbad-e Kavoos (north), and Ahwaz (southwest).

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, urged the United Nations Secretary General, High Commissioner for Human Rights and all international human rights organizations to condemn these barbaric crimes and to take urgent and serious action to stop the executions.

She stressed that the world community’s silence and inaction, including the failure to table a censure resolution at the UN Human Rights Commission and the lack of a Special Rapporteur on human rights abuses in Iran, had emboldened the mullahs to continue and step up their crimes and medieval executions.

Mrs. Rajavi emphasized that there was no longer any justification for prolonging the policy of appeasing the mullahs under the pretext of "human rights dialogue." The mullahs’ atrocities against the Iranian people are a clear manifestation of crimes against humanity and must be referred to the United Nations Security Council, she added.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
August 23, 2005