• Another seven prisoners hanged in Karaj, Shiraz, and Mashhad including a public hanging
• Trade and relations with this regime and ignoring its criminal executions is tantamount to collaboration in its crimes
The Iranian regime collectively hanged 11 young prisoners in Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison on May 25. One of those executed was only 16 at the time of his alleged crime. A day earlier, five prisoners were executed in Ghezel Hessar Prison of Karaj and Adelabad Prison of Shiraz. Another prisoner was also hanged in public in the city of Ramsar after spending eight years in prison.
The Iranian Resistance calls on the UN Security Council, the European Union, the United States, as well as all international human rights organizations, particularly the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial and arbitrary executions, and unions and assemblies that defend the youths to condemn the antihuman clerical regime for these criminal executions. These crimes that take place concurrent with Western officials’ relations with the Iranian regime demonstrate that these relations have emboldened the religious fascism ruling Iran in its brazen, brutal and systematic violation of human rights. Trade with the murderers of the Iranian people and dubbing them as ‘moderates’ has no meaning but collaboration in the human rights tragedy in Iran. This policy must cease and instead the leaders of the Iranian regime should be brought to justice in international tribunals.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 25, 2016