International appeal for immediate action to release political prisoners and prevent executions of inmates on death row
On Tuesday morning, July 23, Khamenei’s executioners hanged seven prisoners, including three women, in Birjand prison. The day before, a prisoner named Hassan Fallahi was hanged in Qom Central Prison. Six prisoners were executed on Sunday, July 21, in Qezelhessar and Diesel Abad prisons in Kermanshah, and four prisoners were executed on Saturday, July 20, in Adel Abad prison in Shiraz. Thus, in four days (July 20-23), 18 prisoners were executed in Iran, including 4 female prisoners.
On Sunday, July 21, a prisoner named Danial Kazeminejad was hanged in Diesel Abad prison in Kermanshah in retaliation for the death of a criminal Revolutionary Guard named Sajjad Amiri. Sajjad Amiri had been involved in killing people in Iraq and Syria for some time.
In another criminal act, Pakhshan Azizi, a female Kurdish political prisoner, was sentenced to death on charges of “rebellion” fabricated by the mullahs in Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran, presided over Iman Afshari. After this news was announced, female political prisoners in the women’s ward of Evin prison protested.
In another development, on Tuesday, July 23, at least 10 prisoners in Birjand, Sanandaj, and Urmia were transferred to solitary confinement for execution.
On July 23, for the twenty-sixth week, prisoners in 16 prisons participated in the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign by going on hunger strike. These prisons included Evin Prison (women’s ward, wards 4, 6, and 8), Qezelhessar Prison (units 3 and 4), Karaj Central Prison, Khorramabad Prison, Tabriz Prison (women’s ward), Ardabil Prison, Qaemshahr Prison, Khoy Prison, Naqadeh Prison, Saqez Prison, Mashhad Prison, Urmia Prison, Marivan Prison, Kamyaran Prison, Baneh Prison, and Salmas Prison. In their statement, the striking prisoners said: “While the government is unable to respond to the legitimate demands of the people, it intends to create fear and terror in society by killing and executing prisoners on various charges to create an obstacle to future protests and uprisings by the oppressed people.”
The acceleration of the mullahs’ criminal executions after the presidential election show is, more than anything, indicative of Ali Khamenei’s fear of a popular uprising. This regime cannot continue its disgraceful existence for a single day without repression and execution.
The Iranian Resistance once again calls on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, and all human rights organizations to take immediate action to free political prisoners and save the lives of prisoners on death row. It also calls for referring the human rights violations dossier of the religious fascism ruling Iran to the UN Security Council. Khamenei and other leaders of this regime must face justice for four decades of crimes against humanity and genocide.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
24 July 2024