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Tuesday, 07 June 2005 |
 Regime sentences 13 prisoners in Ahwaz to death, amputation and long-term imprisonment to terrorize the public
The state-controlled daily Kayhan wrote yesterday that the clerical
regime's Judiciary sentenced 13 prisoners charged with robbery in Ahwaz
to execution and inhuman punishments.
Three were sentenced to death, two sentenced to amputation of fingers
on the right hand and toes on the left foot. Seven were sentenced to 10
years in jail and 52 lashes each.
These barbaric and inhuman punishments are designed to terrorize and
intimidate the public. Last April, Ahwaz and many other cities in
Khuzistan Province were the scenes of weeklong uprisings in which at
least 62 protesters were killed by the State Security Forces and more
than 1,000 arrested. Most of those detained remain in prison.
These execution sentences were issued while last Saturday the regime
hanged two persons, Ahmad and Morad Saleki in Kerman on the charge of
drug trafficking.
The shameful policy of appeasement of and "human rights dialogue" with
this medieval regime has emboldened the mullahs in the suppression of
the Iranian people.
The Iranian Resistance urges international human rights bodies and
organizations to condemn these criminal executions and inhuman
punishments. It also calls for an end to the policy of appeasement by
the European Union and the referral of the clerical regime's abysmal
rights record to the United Nations Security Council.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 7, 2005 |
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