NCRI – In letters to the UN Secretary General, Security Council, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and international human rights organizations, Mrs. Rajavi, the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance warned that those arrested during the Iranian people’s nationwide uprising were facing torture and execution as well as being forced to make forced televised confessions. She called for the regime’s criminal file to be referred to the Security Council and binding measures to be adopted to prevent the torture and execution of political prisoners. She reiterated the need to send an international fact-finding mission to Iran to investigate and reports on the crimes of the mullahs’ regime.
Referring to the remarks by mullah Ahmad Jannati, the head of the regime’s Guardian Council, during Friday prayers sermon, saying that in the coming days further confessions would be aired from the detainees, Mrs. Rajavi said the regime is physically and psychologically torturing those arrested to force them to appear on state television and corroborate the regime’s ludicrous claims that the people’s uprising is being fuelled and guided from abroad.
She once again said that from the outset of the uprising, agents of the Revolutionary Guards, paramilitary Bassij, State Security Force, Ministry Intelligence and Security as well as plainclothes agents have attacked people with weapons, tear gas and pepper spray, killing more than 200 people and injuring or arresting thousands of others. The detainees are in appalling conditions and undergoing brutal torture. At least one detainee, Kianoush Asa, a post-graduate student from Tehran’s Science and Technology University, who was arrested on June 15, has been tortured to death. She added that through widespread arrests, torture, and execution and by breaking their resolve parallel with spreading fear, the mullahs are trying in vain to save their regime from the people’s rage and discontent.
Mullah Ahmad Khatami, a member of the regime’s Assembly of Experts, on June 26, 2009 said those arrested had “waged war on God” and he urged the Judiciary to execute them. Mullah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi, the regime’s judiciary chief, on June 30 established a three-man panel, consisting of Prosecutor-General mullah Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi, General Inspection Organization Director Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, and First Deputy Judiciary chief Ebrahim Raissi, to pursue the files of those arrested in the course of the Iranian people’s nationwide uprising. Pour-Mohammadi and Raissi were both members of the “Death Committee” founded by Khomeini in 1988 which in the space of a few weeks ordered the execution of 30,000 political prisoners.
Pour-Mohammadi, a former Interior Minister under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was at the time of the massacre a deputy Intelligence Minister and played the greatest role in carrying out Khomeini’s order for the massacre of political prisoners.
Dorri-Najafabadi bears responsibility for the chain murders of political opponents in the late 1990s when he was Intelligence Minister.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 4, 2009
