NCRI – Iranian regime’s henchmen hanged five prisoners including Soheila Ghadiri, a 28-year-old woman, in Tehran’s Evin prison on Wednesday.
Soheila Ghadiri’s death sentence was quashed after the victim’s family had pardoned her. Saeed Mortazavi, known as Judge Mortazavi, former Tehran Chief Prosecutor and current deputy Prosecutor General, responsible for torture and execution of thousands of prisoners, reopened her case which eventually led to her execution despite all efforts to save her life.
She is the fourth woman hanged by the regime in the past 25 days. Mullahs’ insistence on carrying out such barbaric sentences has nothing to do with crimes allegedly committed by prisoners, but an effort to intensify the atmosphere of fear and terror in the country, especially among women and youths who have displayed their resolve to overthrow the regime and establish democracy and people’s sovereignty in their nationwide uprising in the past few months.
The Iranian Resistance considers escalation of arbitrary executions in Iran, particularly hangings of women and youths, as a reflection of the clerical regime’s barbarism and unbridled brutality. It reiterates that negotiations with the mullahs and giving concessions to such a regime that is a shame for humanity would only embolden them to continue with killings and bloodshed.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 21, 2009
