NCRI – According to reports from Iran, a male prisoner in Rasht, provincial capital of Gilan in northern Iran, has been sentenced to barbaric punishment of stoning to death. The inhuman sentence for the man identified as Mohammad Ali Navid Khamami has been endorsed and he is facing death any moment.
On March 5, 2009, Vali Azad, 30, an employee of the Trade Department from the city of Pars Abad of Moghan in northern Iran, was stoned to death secretly in Lakan prison of Rasht upon the orders of the criminal judges of the clerical regime’s judiciary.
The Iranian Resistance condemns the medieval punishment of stoning and calls on all human rights organizations in particular the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to condemn the appalling state of human rights in Iran. It also calls for referral of the clerical regime’s dossier to the Security Council for adoption of urgent binding decisions to save the lives of prisoners sentenced to barbaric punishments.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 5, 2009
