Maryam Rajavi described barbaric execution of five political prisoners, including a woman, as a sign of the clerical regime’s fear of public uprising to overthrow the faltering regime
NCRI – Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, described the execution of five political prisoners, including a woman, as the sign of the regime’s vulnerability in face of the Iranian people’s anger and its fear of spreading of uprising in the country to overthrow the faltering clerical regime.
She added: The clerical regime, following the courageous uprising of the Iranian workers on May Day and on the brink of the anniversary of the beginning of uprising in June, is trying to intensify the atmosphere of intimidation and terror in the country by increasing the number of executions and public hangings and using all sorts of suppressive schemes and widespread arrests of young people and women in various cities.
These outrageous crimes will not, however, save the ruling religious dictatorship in Iran, instead, it will amplify the cries of the Iranian people for freedom and make them even more resolute in their uprising to establish freedom and democracy in Iran, she reiterated.
Mrs. Rajavi called on the United Nations Secretary General, UN Security Council, High Commissioner for Human Rights and other concerned bodies to condemn these heinous crimes and emphasized: The international community is faced with a crucial test; either keep silence in face of the bloodiest dictator of the modern era or impose a firm policy and set the halting of executions, torture and human rights abuses in Iran as a precondition for continued economic and political relations with the regime.
Shirin Alam-Houli, 29, a political prisoner from the city of Maku (northwest Iran) was executed on Sunday after three years of imprisonment. Along with her, Farzad Kamangar, 35, a teacher with 12 years of experience and a member of Kurdish Teachers Association, was executed after spending four years in prison. Ali Heydarian and Farhad Vakili, both political activists from the city of Sanandaj, were executed after four years of imprisonment. All victims were accused of connection with PEJAK and acting against the security of the clerical rule in Iran.
Mehdi Eslamian was executed in Shiraz for providing funds to his younger brother Mohsen and was accused of taking part in 2008 bombing in that city. Mohasen was hanged in Shiraz on April 10, 2009 at the age of 19.
All these prisoners were subjected to intolerable tortures and prison conditions aimed to press them to make forced confessions, take part in TV shows or appeal to the clerical regime for amnesty.
Furthermore, the criminal hangings are taking place while on numerous occasions the international human rights organizations such as Amnesty International had called for a halt on execution of these political prisoners, particularly Farzad Kamangar.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 9, 2010
