{"id":226006,"date":"2020-09-14T13:42:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T12:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=226006"},"modified":"2023-01-20T17:06:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T16:06:56","slug":"iran-regimes-continuous-executions-require-global-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iran-regimes-continuous-executions-require-global-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Regime\u2019s Continuous Death Sentences, Require Global Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Iranian regime executed\u00a0<\/span>Navid\u00a0<\/span>Afkari<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Sangari<\/span>\u00a0on Saturday despite\u00a0<\/span>global outcries<\/a> to stop his execution.\u00a0<\/span>The regime did not have the capacity to halt\u00a0<\/span>Navid\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0execution<\/span>, since\u00a0<\/span>doing so<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>was against the regime\u2019s existential need for execution and suppression of a restive society.\u00a0<\/span>In addition, fearing\u00a0<\/span>Navid\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0execution and his funeral could spark an uprising and increase further international pressure<\/a> on them,\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>mullahs\u00a0<\/span>rapidly and secretly executed him and buried him at night.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Navid was arrested after\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>2018 nationwide Iran protests<\/a> along with his two<\/span>\u00a0brothers.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In another development\u00a0on Thursday,\u00a0the\u00a0Iranian regime\u2019s\u00a0Supreme Court upheld the death sentences\u00a0<\/a>for the third time\u00a0for\u00a0seven\u00a0Iranian\u00a0Kurdish\u00a0Sunni political prisoners after 11 years of detention. These prisoners were identified as\u00a0Farhad\u00a0Salimi,\u00a0Qasem\u00a0Abasteh,\u00a0Davoud\u00a0Abdollahi, Ayoub Karimi,\u00a0Anvar\u00a0Khezri,\u00a0Khosro\u00a0Besharat,\u00a0and Kamran\u00a0Sheikheh.\u00a0They have been imprisoned and sentenced to death on bogus charges such as\u00a0\u201cacting against national security\u201d, \u201cspreading propaganda against the state\u201d, \u201cmembership in Salafi groups\u201d, \u201ccorruption on earth\u201d and \u201cmoharebeh\u201d or waging war against God.\u00a0\u00a0Before the 38th Branch of the Supreme Court confirmed their death sentences on September 10, the 28th\u00a0Branch of the regime\u2019s so-called \u201cRevolutionary Courts,\u201d presided by\u00a0Mohammad\u00a0Moqiseh\u00a0had condemned these political prisoners to execution in\u00a02014.\u00a0Moqiseh, also known as Naserian, was a key member of the regime\u2019s so-called \u201cDeath Commissions,\u201d responsible\u00a0for massacring over 30,000 political prisoners in the summer of 1988<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last week,<\/span>\u00a0the death sentence for<\/span>\u00a0Haidar\u00a0<\/span>Ghorbani<\/span>, a Kurdish political prisoner<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>was upheld by<\/span>\u00a0the Supreme Court.<\/span> The news indicates that\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>regime has also issued a death sentence for<\/span>\u00a0Shaker Behrouz, a political prisoner from Urmia,\u00a0<\/span>north<\/span>west Iran<\/span>, who was arrested in February 2019<\/span>. Behrouz has been subjected to vicious tortures to make false\u00a0<\/span>confessions.\u00a0<\/span>He\u00a0<\/span>has\u00a0<\/span>been sentenced to death on the charge of\u00a0<\/span>membership\u00a0<\/span>in<\/span>\u00a0a Kurdis<\/span>h<\/span>\u00a0opposition group and murder of a\u00a0<\/span>member of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Following the execution of Navid\u00a0<\/span>Afkari<\/span>\u00a0on Saturday, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi<\/a> the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)<\/a><\/span>,<\/span> said: “<\/span>The religious fascism ruling\u202f<\/span>Iran<\/span><\/a>\u202fcannot survive a day without executions, torture, and domestic suppression. By spilling the blood of young people like Navid <\/span>Afkari<\/span>, the mullahs are seeking to maintain their hold on power in the face of Iran protests.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>The\u202f<\/span>execution<\/span>\u202fof\u202f<\/span>Navid\u00a0<\/span>Afkari<\/span><\/a>, however, will only add fuel to the flames of the Iranian people\u2019s uprising and will send the mullahs\u2019 regime to the dustbin of history.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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The religious fascism ruling #Iran<\/a> will not survive a day without executions, torture and domestic suppression. By spilling the blood of young people like #NavidAfkari<\/a> the mullahs seek to maintain their hold on power in the face of #IranProtests<\/a>.<\/p>\n

— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) September 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n