NCRI – On the World Day Against the Death Penalty, political prisoners in the mullahs’ detention centers nationwide published an open letter. The call includes prisoners in the notorious Evin Prison, Gohardasht Prison, Central Prison in the northern city of Orumieh, Central Prison in the northeastern city of Birjand, Diesel Abad Prison in the western city of Kermanshah, Bandar Abbas and Ahwaz Prisons in the south Iran.
They announced a three days hunger strike to protest the new wave of executions in Iran.
"Executions have become a way of life in our country and even innocent children are not spared from the horror of watching victims die on the cranes.
"It is obvious to everyone in Iran that the primary goal for such heinous crimes, for the mullahs’ regime, is to spread public in the country," the letter added.
Over the years, in the prisons, we have witnessed the constant growth of prison population.
"The deprived workers have not been paid for months in Iran. To protest, we have decided to hold a three days hunger strike in the prisons nationwide," the prisoners stated.
"We summarize our demands as following:
1. An immediate halt to all public and group executions and further to abrogate the degrading punishment all together in Iran;
2. Put an end to physical and psychological torture as well as systematic attacks on the political prisoners in Iran. In the past few weeks, we have witnessed that two of our fellow inmates, Messrs Afshin Baemani and Javid Tehrani were severely beaten by the prison guards. Mr. Baemani suffered abdominal cuts and did not receive any medical treatment for hours after the torture. With the same condition, he was called in and in the course of fresh interrogations his nose was broken. Our families are under constant harassment by the agents of Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) not to follow our cases;
3. We defend the rights of all workers especially that of the sugar cane factory workers in the southwestern city of Shoosh;
4. We the political prisoners demand that the rights of all workers, student activists, women as well as all other people be respected in Iran."
