{"id":225459,"date":"2020-09-08T11:05:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T10:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=225459"},"modified":"2023-01-25T18:01:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T17:01:03","slug":"forced-tv-confessions-another-sign-of-iran-regimes-systematic-human-rights-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/forced-tv-confessions-another-sign-of-iran-regimes-systematic-human-rights-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced TV Confessions: Another Sign of Iran Regime\u2019s Systematic Human Rights Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Prison_Iran_08092020\" class=\"size-full wp-image-225460 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Prison_Iran_08092020.jpg\" alt=\"Evin, confession, Iran, mek, afkari, navid, younesi\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Prison_Iran_08092020.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Prison_Iran_08092020-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Prison_Iran_08092020-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Prison_Iran_08092020-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Prison_Iran_08092020-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following an international campaign to stop Navid Afkari\u2019s execution, a protester arrested in 2018, the Iranian regime aired his forced confessions once again on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Broadcasting forced TV confessions shows the mullahs\u2019 intention to execute Navid and is a sign of the mullahs\u2019 systematic human rights violations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_225046\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225046\" style=\"width: 384px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Navid-Afkari-Vahid-Afkari-01092020-e1599057806168\" class=\" wp-image-225046\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Navid-Afkari-Vahid-Afkari-01092020-e1599057806168.jpg\" alt=\"Navid-Afkari-Vahid-Afkari-01092020-e1599057806168\" width=\"384\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Navid-Afkari-Vahid-Afkari-01092020-e1599057806168.jpg 601w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Navid-Afkari-Vahid-Afkari-01092020-e1599057806168-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-225046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Navid Afkari &#8211; Vahid Afkari<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Navid Afkari Sangari, 27, is a wrestling champion. He was arrested in 2018, along with his two brothers. Following months of horrific tortures, and following a televised confession, Navid was sentenced to two times executions.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-navid-vahid-habib-afkari-sangari-protests-torture-execution-human-rights-20200831\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter <\/a>from prison, Navid wrote: \u201cFor around 50 days I had to endure the most horrendous physical and psychological tortures. They would beat me with sticks and batons, hitting my arms, legs, abdomen and back. They would place a plastic bag on my head and torture me until I suffocated to the very brink of death. They also poured alcohol into my nose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a similar development, the Iranian regime executed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-human-rights\/iran-regime-hangs-protester-mostafa-salehi-to-terrorize-the-public-thwart-uprisings\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mostafa Salehi<\/a>, a protester arrested in 2018 in the city of Isfahan on August 5. Mostafa was subjected to vicious tortures to confess to killing a security force. A source close to Mostafa Salehi\u2019s family <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/iran-hrm.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/06\/executed-iranian-protester-tortured-to-make-false-confession\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>: \u201cMostafa\u2019s hand and both legs had been broken during interrogations. Agents also used needles to puncture under his nails. The tortures were so severe that his neck and spinal cord became injured.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_217773\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-217773\" style=\"width: 364px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Al-Younesi-Amirhossein-Moradi\" class=\" wp-image-217773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Al-Younesi-Amirhossein-Moradi.jpeg\" alt=\"Iran: Mullahs' judiciary admits arrest of Amir Hossein Moradi and Ali Younesi, Sharif University of Technology elite students\" width=\"364\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Al-Younesi-Amirhossein-Moradi.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Al-Younesi-Amirhossein-Moradi-300x239.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Al-Younesi-Amirhossein-Moradi-1024x814.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Al-Younesi-Amirhossein-Moradi-768x611.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Al-Younesi-Amirhossein-Moradi-696x553.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Al-Younesi-Amirhossein-Moradi-1068x849.jpeg 1068w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Al-Younesi-Amirhossein-Moradi-528x420.jpeg 528w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-217773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Al Younesi-Amirhossein Moradi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In addition, two political prisoners, Ali Younesi and Amir Hossain Moradi, two elite students arrested in April, are now under pressure to make forced confessions on TV. In this regard, sister of Ali Younesi, on Saturday wrote on Twitter: \u201cOn Wednesday (September 2), my brother Ali Younesi was told to accept the charges against him in a televised confession, and in which case he will receive a life sentence instead of the death penalty. After five months of detention, solitary confinement, and public interrogation, they have been insisting for a TV interview, by threatening and pressuring (him) for the past three weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-e1598946307486\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-e1598946307486.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-e1598946307486\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian regime has been using torture and systematic ill-treatment for the past four decades against political prisoners. Amnesty International published a shocking report, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2020\/09\/iran-detainees-flogged-sexually-abused-and-given-electric-shocks-in-gruesome-post-protest-crackdown-new-report\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cTrampled Humanity,\u201d<\/a> on September 2, confirming the regime\u2019s use of severe torture particularly against those detained during two nationwide Iran protests in 2018 and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests-2019-update\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to this report, the Iranian regime has been using \u201cwidespread torture including beatings, floggings, electric shocks, stress positions, mock executions, waterboarding, sexual violence, forced administration of chemical substances, and deprivation of medical care,\u201d to put pressure on thousands of protesters arrested during the November 2019 uprising.<\/p>\n<p>The November 2019 major Iran protests rattled the Iranian regime\u2019s foundation. The regime\u2019s supreme leader Ali Khamenei ordered his forces to \u201cdo whatever they can,\u201d and oppress the protesters. More than <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/iran-protests\/27081-over-1-500-killed-in-the-iranian-people-s-nationwide-uprising-names-of-504-martyrs-released\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1500 protesters were killed<\/a>, and thousands were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>In a desperate attempt to quell the restive Iranian society, the regime has increased its oppressive measures. Having failed in executing three protesters, following a massive international campaign on social media, the mullahs are now trying to use executions as a show of power. In this regard, the state-run Mostaghel daily on Wednesday <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/society\/iran-peoples-growing-hatred-of-mullahs-regime-could-lead-to-a-new-uprising-state-run-media\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a>: \u201cThe sympathy and harmony of the society with the executed people and the awakening of their sense of compassion towards these selected [victims] by the ruling system are signs of the widening rift between the society and the government. As much as the government carries out executions coldly, society views these executions as violent and protests them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Commemoration-of-the-victims-of-the-1988-massacr\" class=\"wp-image-223570 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Commemoration-of-the-victims-of-the-1988-massacr.jpg\" alt=\"Commemoration-of-the-victims-of-the-1988-massacr\" width=\"469\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Commemoration-of-the-victims-of-the-1988-massacr.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Commemoration-of-the-victims-of-the-1988-massacr-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The international community\u2019s failure in holding the Iranian regime to account for its past crimes has emboldened the mullahs to kill and oppress any voice of dissent. A clear example is the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/20932-the-1988-massacre-in-iran\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1988 massacre<\/a> of political prisoners, a crime that has gone unpunished for 32 years. More than 30,000 political prisoners, mostly members and supporters of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/primer-the-history-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-iran\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK)<\/a>, were executed in a matter of few months. These executions were carried out following short and unfair trials by so-called \u201cDeath Commissions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The perpetrators of this crime now hold top positions in the regime. They include <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/publications\/special-reports\/iran-who-is-ebrahim-raisi\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ebrahim Raisi<\/a>, head of the regime\u2019s Judiciary, and Alireza Avaei, current Justice Minister.<\/p>\n<p>The recent report by Amnesty International and having two criminals at the highest legal and judicial level show the regime has never changed course regarding human rights violations. In this regard, the international community bears a responsibility to hold the mullahs to account for their past and current crimes.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/our-resistance\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iranian Resistance<\/a> has repeatedly said, the United Nations Security Council and its member states, the Secretary-General, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Human Rights Council, as well as the European Union, must condemn the continuing torture and crimes against humanity in Iran. They must take urgent action to secure the release of detained protesters and political prisoners and dispatch an international commission of inquiry to visit the regime\u2019s prisons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following an international campaign to stop Navid Afkari&rsquo;s execution, a protester arrested in 2018, the Iranian regime aired his forced confessions once again on Monday. 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