Ali Khamenei’s machinery of execution and repression is relentlessly active in fear of uprising and overthrow. On Thursday, October 17, six prisoners were hanged. On this day, Abbas Karimi, 36, and Mohammad Ali Najafi, 35, were executed in Isfahan, while Noormorad Garavand and a prisoner named Sanjari were executed in Qazvin, and two prisoners were hanged in Qom.
On Wednesday, October 16, in another brutal massacre, nine prisoners were hanged by the regime’s executioners. One of them was previously named in an earlier statement. The remaining eight included Rasoul Faily and a female prisoner in Hamedan, Abdulbari Tajik, Pasha Pashto, Javid Ahmad Khani, and a prisoner named Rahman in Qezelhessar prison, Mohsen Mokhtari in Shiraz, and another prisoner in Mashhad. On October 14, in addition to an execution mentioned in the previous statement, Alireza Khashaveh-Pour was hanged in Mashhad.
Thus, since July 2024, when Massoud Pezeshkian took office, at least 316 prisoners, including 12 women, have been sent to the gallows.
Engaging in negotiations and deals with the regime, which holds the record for executions and torture in today’s world, is a blatant violation of universal human rights principles. It only encourages this regime to continue its brutal and systematic violation of human rights, as well as its export of terrorism and warmongering. Diplomatic and commercial relations with this regime must be conditional on the cessation of torture and execution, and its leaders must be brought to justice for four decades of crimes against humanity and genocide.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
18 October 2024