NCRI – According to the government run-media reports eleven people identified as Abdullah Suleymani, Abdulreza Sanawati Zergani, Qasem Salamat, Mohammad Jaab Pour, Abdulamir Farjallah Jaab, Alireza Asakreh, Majed Alboghubaish, Khalaf Derhab Khudayrawi, Malek Banitamim, Sa’id Saki and Abdullah Al-Mansouri will be executed imminently in the southwestern Province of Khuzistan. The state-run television in Khuzistan broadcasted forced and distorted confessions attributed to them which a usual tactic used by the notorious Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) to pave the way for the heinous crime.
On July 4, 2006, the Prosecutor General of the southwestern city of Ahwaz, Iraj Amirkhani, said, “The maxim [death] sentence has been sought for 22 people indicted in the Ahwaz bombings.”
In past two years, the provincial capital Ahwaz and many other cities in Khuzistan have been the scene of anti-government uprisings and protests by the deprived people in the region. A large number of young people were arrested in the course of the protests. The regime’s henchmen tortured and murdered a number of the detainees and dumped their bodies outside their homes.
The Iranian Resistance called on the Secretary General of the United Nations, UN Security Council, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights, and the UN Human Rights Council as well as all other international human rights organizations to take urgent measures to prevent the executions.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 17, 2006
