Mrs. Maryam Rajavi: The European Union bears a heavy responsibility for keeping silence in the face of such crimes committed against humanity
State-run media: 235 prisoners hanged in past eight months
NCRI – The mullahs’ henchmen hanged seventeen prisoners identified as Masoumeh Aramideh, Rahandel Shiri, Gholam-Hossein Saljoqi, Hossein Gholami, Seyed Hossein Hosseini, Reza Dawoodi, Mohsen Afshar-Barji, Hassan-Reza Saiidi, Esmail Khoshkerdar, Sharaf-aldin Golmajdi, Mahmoud Hafezi-Far, Mohammad Saraii, Javad Khayat-Azad (a.k.a Khayatzadeh), Reza Jafari-Zadeh, Ali Naderian, and Mohammad Saiid Zabi-allah-Habibi on the charges of being “corrupt on earth,” in the northeastern city of Mashhad, the state-run television reported today.
The regime hanged another four prisoners identified as Mohammad Ali Qasemi, Alireza Bar-Ahoii, Gaz-Ava Mahmoudzehi, and Abdulrasoul Qorbanzadeh in the southern city of Shiraz. Deputy Judicial Ministry in the southern Fars province, Abdulnabi Najibi said, “The [executions] will guarantee a long lasting public security.”
The total number of executions in the past eight months has more than doubled the same period last year according to the state-run media. In the same period a number of political prisoners have been executed as common criminals.
President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi described the escalation in the executions in particular in past two months a desperate attempt by the regime to combat the increasing popular uprisings in Iran. She emphasized that the appeasement policy by the EU governments which was best reflected by the June 28, 2007, decision to maintain the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) on the list of terrorist organizations has embolden the regime to continue with its crimes. The European Union bears a heavy responsibility for keeping silence in the face of such crimes committed against humanity in Iran.
Mrs. Rajavi called on the UN Secretary General, and the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which the aforesaid group executions occurred during her recent visit to Tehran, to condemn brutal violation of human rights and in particular rising number of arbitrary executions in Iran. She also called for the referral of the mullahs’ human rights dossier which entails numerous cases of crimes against humanity to the Security Council for adoption of binding measures against the regime.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
September 5, 2007
