{"id":8152,"date":"2010-05-15T03:20:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T02:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/statements\/iran-resistance\/8152-iran-risk-of-execution-for-20-political-prisoners-in-regimes-jails"},"modified":"2010-05-15T03:20:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T02:20:06","slug":"iran-risk-of-execution-for-20-political-prisoners-in-regimes-jails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/iran-risk-of-execution-for-20-political-prisoners-in-regimes-jails\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Risk of execution for 20 political prisoners in regime&#8217;s Jails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"fr\/images\/stories\/200\/DDH\/prison-execution.jpg\" alt=\" \"  width=\"200\" height=\"160\" align=\"right\" \/>NCRI &#8211; The latest execution of five prisoners, brought the number of political prisoners executed since last year&rsquo;s election in Iran, at least to eight. Twenty political prisoners face imminent execution, 17 of whom are of Kurdish descent. Other political prisoners also are at risk of similar sentences. <\/p>\n<p>The names of the Kurdish political prisoners whom are to be executed are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>1- Ms. Zainab Jalalian.<br \/>2- Habibollah Latifi.<br \/>3- Shirkoe&nbsp; Moarefi.<br \/>4- Rustam Arkya.<br \/>5- Hussein Khezri.<br \/>6- Anwar Rostami.<br \/>7- Mohammad Amin Abdollahi.<br \/>8- Qader Mohammad Zadeh.<br \/>9- Mostafa Salimi.<br \/>10- Hasan Talaey.<br \/>11- Iraj Mohammadi.&nbsp; <br \/>12- Rashid Akhkandy.<br \/>13- Mohammad Amin Agoshy.<br \/>14- Ahmad Pouladkhany .<br \/>&nbsp;15- Seyed Sami Hosseini . <br \/>&nbsp;16- Seyed Jamal Mohammadi. <br \/>&nbsp;17- Aziz Mohammad Zadeh.&nbsp; <br \/>&nbsp; <br \/>&nbsp;Mohammad Amin Valian, a 20 year old student, is another prisoner , who is charged with throwing stones at a police car on the day of Ashura for which he has been sentenced to death. <br \/>&nbsp; <br \/>Hamed Rohynejad&nbsp; , 23 year old patient with Muscular dystrophy,(M.S), imprisoned since, May 2009. he is sentenced&nbsp; to death.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>On, May 9, 2010, without notifying their families or lawyers five political prisoners, were executed at dawn. While at least one of them, Farzad Kamangar&rsquo;s death sentence&nbsp; , had been canceled.<br \/>&nbsp;Arash Rahmanian and Mohammad Ali Zamani were executed in the past winter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;On November 11, 2009, Ehsan Fatahian&nbsp;&nbsp; was executed in Sanandaj prison. <br \/>&nbsp; <br \/>&nbsp;It is feared that with hasty implementation of the rules, outside the judicial boundaries, executions will continue, and&nbsp; contributes to even more prisoners being executed . <br \/>&nbsp; <br \/>Raja News one of regime&rsquo;s web sites&nbsp; in a report published on May,9, 2010 after the executions had taken place&nbsp; claiming that Shiva Nazar Ahari , is affiliated to the PMOI. <br \/>&nbsp; <br \/>Shiva Nazar Ahari who has been in prison since December 2009, is one of the founders of the Reporters Committee for human rights. Regimes&rsquo; Raja News web site claimed that&nbsp; since&nbsp; 2005 she has been in direct communication with the People&rsquo;s Mojahedin of Iran through a proxy.<br \/>&nbsp; <br \/>Koehyar Goodarzi&nbsp; another member of the Reporters Committee for Human Rights is currently in jail facing similar charges . <\/p>\n<p>Mahdieh Golroe&nbsp; a student of Allameh University&nbsp; who was expelled from university study had also been accused of communicating with the People&rsquo;s&nbsp; Mojahedin Organization of Iran. She was a Council member, on defending the right to education. On April, 2010, behind&nbsp; closed doors, in a court&nbsp; that her own attorney was not allowed to attend she was charged with communication with the P.M.O.I. <br \/>&nbsp; <br \/>On the other hand, transferring some other prisoners, including Eisa Saharkhiz, Ahmad Zeidabadi, and&nbsp; Masood Bastani to&nbsp; Gohardasht prison has raised the concern of&nbsp; human rights activists . These individual all are journalists and are kept alongside dangerous murderers and common criminals.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>&nbsp; <br \/>After the execution of Farhad Vakili ,on May, 9th&nbsp; the other prisoners of Ward 350 of the notorious Evin prison&nbsp; went on a hunger strike. The Warden of ward 350 transferred some prisoners to different sections of Evin prison and some to the Gohardasht prison in Karaj.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCRI &ndash; The latest execution of five prisoners, brought the number of political prisoners executed since last year&rsquo;s election in Iran, at least to eight. 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