A new wave of executions coinciding with the anniversary of the 2022 uprising, brings the total number of prisoners executed to 154 during the tenure of Khamenei’s new president
On the eve of the anniversary of the 2022 uprising, and amidst skyrocketing prices for essential goods like bread, Ali Khamenei launched a new wave of executions to prevent a popular revolt. This morning, on Monday, September 9, six prisoners were hanged at Zahedan Central Prison in a criminal act by his executioners.
On September 1, Parviz Mirbalouch was executed in Kahnuj, Saber Jamali, 29, in Hamadan, Ali Danesh and Akbar Zandi in Shiraz, and Ahmad Nazerifar in Neyshabur. On August 31, Mohammad Reza Abbaszadeh, 30, was hanged in Zanjan, and on August 29, Sirvan Abubakri was hanged in Mahabad.
On Wednesday, August 28, Khamenei’s executioners hanged five people, including Milad Ali Mohammadi, 34, Emad Motvalian, 25, Rafie Abdulbari, 30, and Asad Khosravi at Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan, and Meysam Hosseinkhani Ghobadi, 22, in Khorramabad.
This brings the total number of executions to 154 since the beginning of the Iranian month of Mordad (July 22), coinciding with the inauguration of Khamenei’s new president.
Additionally, on Friday, September 6, prisoners at Karaj Central Prison were poisoned due to contaminated drinking water, suffering from stomach pain, vomiting, and dizziness. While prisoners urgently needed drinking water and medical attention, prison authorities abandoned them, neglecting to provide water, medication, or doctors.
The Iranian Resistance is once again urging the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, as well as the European Union and its member states, to take immediate action to halt the surge of executions and repression in Iran and to save the lives of those on death row. Maintaining political and economic relations with the regime that carries out executions and instills terror disregards universal human rights principles and should be contingent on the cessation of executions and torture in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
9 September 2024
