Thirty prisoners executed in less than a week in cities across the country
In a new wave of executions, the Iranian regime executed 30 prisoners in various cities from July 11 to 17. Sixteen were executed today, July 17, in Karaj and Birjand.
In Karaj, 11 prisoners including a woman were executed en masse in Ghezel Hessar Prison and another two were hanged in public in Mehrshahr district.
Two prisoners were executed in the Central Prison of Lakan, in Rasht (northern Iran) on July 16. Six prisoners were hanged on July 13, in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj. Five more prisoners were hanged on July 11, in the Central Prison of Arak (central Iran), and another prisoner was executed also on July 11, in the Prison of Maragheh (East Azerbaijan Province in northwest Iran) after enduring eight years in prison.
Beset by various crises, the Iranian regime is unable to respond to the most basic needs of the Iranian people, especially the deprived and low income strata. To confront growing public dissent and protests across the country, it has resorted to a new wave of executions. One year after the nuclear deal, these crimes reveal the claims of moderation in the clerical regime as hollow and expose the falsehood of promises of improvement under the mullahs’ rule. It was thus proved that appeasement of the mullahs’ medieval regime will not bring about change.
The Iranian Resistance calls on human rights organizations to condemn the rising number of executions in Iran and to immediately undertake measures to send the dossier of violations of human rights in Iran to the UN Security Council. All relations with the Iranian regime must be made conditional on an end to executions and an improvement of the human rights situation in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 17, 2016