NCRI – Germany’s consideration to release a convicted terrorist sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1992 murder of four Kurdish dissidents has provoked great concern among the human rights activists. Kazem Darabi’s freedom would be an award to terrorists for their heinous crimes.
It took the Berlin court five years to hand down its verdict on the case. The court concluded that a group of Iranian regime’s leaders at the time, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Velayati, former Minister of Intelligence and Security, Ali Fallahian were among the decision makers for the killings in the Mykonos restaurant. Later, an international arrest warrant was issued for Fallahian. On April 20, 1997, the court found guilty the four codefendants including Darabi for the shootings.
The decision to free the terrorists affiliated to the ruling religious dictatorship in Iran by the German authorities come at time when the regime is under constant scrutiny by the international community for its role in exporting fundamentalism and terrorism abroad. The regime has jeopardized the peace in the region and the world. Instead of setting free such terrorists, the German government should bring to justice the decision makers, Khamenei Rafsanjani, Velayati, Fallahian and others for the killings to an international tribunal for crimes against humanity.
The Iranian Resistance calls on the German judicial authorities not to free such a cold blooded terrorist and reiterates that the mullahs’ terrorists should neither receive a prize for their heinous crimes nor get the wrong message that their deeds go without proper punishments by the law.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 19, 2007
