Executions continue to mount in Iran

NCRI – Tehran’s prosecutor has called on the provincial punitive court to issue death sentences for 17 more youths who were arrested under the bogus charges of being “thugs and hooligans,” state-run news agency Fars reported today. In recent days the government controlled media had also reported that 12 people were on the verge of execution in Kerman, eastern Iran under the same charge.

Also today, ISNA, another state news agency reported that two people were hanged in Tybad Prison in Khorasan Province, northeast Iran. The agency identified the two as M. T., son of Abdulrahim and M. R. son of Mohammad.

On Sunday, August 12, the Etemad-Meli daily reported that a man was hanged in public in Babolsar, in Mazandaran Province, North of Iran. The daily identified the man by his first name Taqi.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, called on the world community once again to end its inaction vis-à-vis the mullahs’ barbarism. She particularly called on the UN Secretary General, the High Commissioner for Human Rights and members of the Security Council as well as the EU members to condemn brutal violation of human rights and in particular rising number of arbitrary executions in Iran. She also called for the referral of the mullahs’ human rights dossier which entails numerous cases of crimes against humanity to the Security Council for adoption of binding measures against the regime.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
August 14, 2007