Ahmadinejad should be tried in an international tribunal for his crimes against humanity
NCRI – In a conference at the Swiss Press Club in Geneva on Monday, The Iranian Resistance strongly condemned the clerical regime’s president Ahmadinejad attending the World Conference Against Racism at the European Headquarter of the United Nations in Geneva. It described this as disrespect against the Iranian people’s struggle for democracy, to the United Nations and all those fighting racial discrimination.
Ahmadinejad should be tried in an international tribunal for his crimes against humanity
NCRI – In a conference at the Swiss Press Club in Geneva on Monday, The Iranian Resistance strongly condemned the clerical regime’s president Ahmadinejad attending the World Conference Against Racism at the European Headquarter of the United Nations in Geneva. It described this as disrespect against the Iranian people’s struggle for democracy, to the United Nations and all those fighting racial discrimination.
Speaking to the conference, Ms. Farideh Karimi, member of the NCRI, said, "It is ridiculous and revolting that the only ‘state president’ attending the conference against racism to be Ahmadinejad. It's regrettable to see that a terrible dictatorship which imposes a religious and gender apartheid against its nation is taking advantage of the UN, its bodies, and instruments.” She added, “Ahmadinejad is the president of a regime that has been condemned 55 times by UN bodies for its systematic use of torture and cruel punishments."
Ms. Karimi said, "Today the Iranian people are faced with a regime that not only practices the most inhumane ethnic and religious discriminations, but also the most brutal discrimination against women and religious minorities. Women are not only deprived of their most basic rights, but thousands of them were executed for their opposition to the regime, and everyday large number of them are arrested, tortured in public and imprisoned for trivial reasons such as failure to observe the dress code.”
Ms. Karimi reiterated, "It is a common knowledge that the mullahs’ regime has the highest number of executions per capita. It has executed 120,000 political prisoners in the past three decades. Every year, nearly 400 people have been executed in Iran including teenagers in recent years. Men and women are hanged by cranes in public.”
She stressed, "It is unacceptable that under the pretext of protocol, the Swiss leaders welcome a person whose hands are soiled with blood. No protocol justifies shaking hands with someone who has personally participated in the execution, torture and assassination of opponents. This is unjustifiable.”
At the conference Mr. Mostafa Naderi, who spent 12 years in Evin and Ghezel Hessar prisons for sympathizing with the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), gave detailed information about brutal violations of human rights, conditions of prisons and political prisoners in Iran and the role played by the clerical leadership in this area.
Mr. Naderi said that Ahmadinejad was himself an interrogator and torturer in Evin prison during the 1980s under the forged identity of Mirzai. He said that Ahmadinejad regularly visited the ward he was staying in Evin prison and took prisoners with him for torture, interrogation and persecution.
Mr. Naderi who had spent five and a half years in solitary confinement said, “Ahmadinejad, the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and other leaders of the regime should be tried in an international tribunal for crimes against humanity and their involvement in the massacre of tens of thousands of political prisoners in Iran; instead of being welcomed to a forum at the United Nations to justify the serious violations of human rights and export of terrorism and fundamentalism. Continuing appeasement of the regime allows it to transform the conference against racism in the United Nations into an instrument of propaganda in the hands of one of the worst dictatorships in the history," he concluded.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 20, 2009
