NCRI – In a criminal and deplorable move, on April 26, the religious fascism ruling Iran sentenced Jafar Kazemi, a political prisoner, to death at the mullahs’ appeals court on charges of “moharebeh” (waging war against God) and “propaganda against the establishment through cooperation with opposition groups.”
Jafar Kazemi, 47, is a father of two and self-employed. He was arrested on September 18, 2009, and transferred to Tehran’s Evin prison, where he was placed under torture and immense pressure. The regime’s henchmen pressured him to partake in the mullahs’ appalling propaganda, show trials and forced confessions on December 27 (religious festival of Ashura). When these desperate measures failed, a phony case was fabricated against him and he was sentenced to death by a judge identified as Zargar. The cruel punishment, which had not been communicated to Kazemi before, was unexpectedly confirmed at an appeals court. According to the regime’s laws, rulings handed down by an appeals court can be implemented after three days.
The increasing trend of issuing and implementation of cruel punishment by hanging, coupled with heightened pressure on political prisoners on the brink of International Workers’ Day, is a means for intensifying the atmosphere of terror in society and prevent protest movements in solidarity with Iranian workers and laborers.
The Iranian Resistance calls on the United Nations Secretary General, Security Council, the international community at large and all human rights advocates to enact urgent and binding measures to prevent the hanging of political prisoner Jafar Kazemi as well as for the release of all political prisoners in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 29, 2010
