Execution of at Least 14 Prisoners on December 9, 10, and 11, Coinciding with International Human Rights Day
585 Executions, Including 21 Women, During Pezeshkian’s Presidency
The inhumane clerical regime executed at least 14 prisoners on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, December 9, 10, and 11, coinciding with International Human Rights Day.
On Wednesday, December 11, six prisoners were executed: Ahmad Jahankhani, Naser Nakhchi, Iman Moghadam, Rahman Sarlak, and Abdollah Tajik in Qezelhessar Prison, as well as Naser Shahouzehi in Greater Tehran Prison.
The day before, on Tuesday, December 10, Abdolmehdi Rashed Amiri, 30, Asghar Ramazani, 34, and Saeid Moti’ were hanged in Qom.
On Monday, December 9, Reza Bahrami-Fard was executed in Dezful. In Zahedan, Khodabakhsh Ghanbarzehi (Barahoui), Omid Hossein-Raei, and another prisoner with the last name Rakhshani were also executed. Morteza Ghasemi was executed in Isfahan.
On Sunday, December 8, Abdolghafour Razmdideh Rigi was executed in Birjand. On Saturday, December 7, a 37-year-old female prisoner named Ameneh Alipour, as well as Ashkan Fathi and Jaber Ansari, were hanged in Isfahan. On Thursday, December 5, Ali Khaleqi Forqani, 22, was executed in Mashhad. On Wednesday, December 4, in addition to the executions announced in a previous statement, Sina Shamsollahi was executed in Miandoab. On Tuesday, December 3, in addition to the previously reported executions, three other prisoners—Khalil Hassanzadeh, 33, Abdollah Panahi, and Rasoul Ebrahimi—were hanged in Tabriz.
Thus, during Massoud Pezeshkian’s presidency, at least 585 prisoners, including 21 women, have been executed since late July. The number of executions in this period is 236 more than the same period last year.
The brutality and savagery carried out under Khamenei’s orders in Iranian prisons are reminiscent of what Bashar al-Assad, his closest ally, perpetrated in Syria’s Sednaya Prison, shocking the world today. Silence and inaction in the face of such a regime are tantamount to violating universal human rights principles. Diplomatic and trade relations with the clerical regime must be conditional upon the cessation of torture and executions, and the leaders of this regime must face justice for four decades of crimes against humanity and genocide.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
11 December 2024
