Mullahs’ inhumane regime executes 22 prisoners today, 12 others since Wednesday
Nationwide uprising in Iran – Statement 70
NCRI – The mullahs’ inhumane regime early on Saturday callously hanged 20 prisoners under the false premise of drug traffickers in Karaj, and two others in Shiraz, in order to spread fear to counter the Iranian people’s nationwide uprising. Over the past three days, six prisoners have been hanged in Tehran and six others in Qom. The regime has in many cases in the past executed political prisoners for ordinary crimes and drug trafficking.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, said the barbaric executions, which were ordered by the mullahs’ notorious hated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, were a sign of the religious dictatorship’s weakness and instability because of the Iranian people’s nationwide uprising. She said that the mullahs’ regime thinks it can frighten the population and subdue the uprising through a wave of arrests and executions and by extracting televised forced confessions which the regime’s criminal Tehran Friday prayers leader had promised.
Mrs. Rajavi urged the UN Secretary General and all UN bodies and international human rights organizations to immediately condemn the executions and refer the regime’s criminal file to the UN Security Council.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 4, 2009
