Fatemeh Salbehi, executed in Shiraz, was only 16 when arrested
Face to face with the international community’s commemoration of “October 10th, the World Day Against the Death Penalty”, the Iranian regime criminally hanged 22 people. Seventeen of the prisoners were hanged on October 12.
On Tuesday, October 13, the regime’s henchmen hanged a young woman who was only 16 when arrested after she had languished seven years in Adelabad Prison of Shiraz. This cruel punishment was carried out despite calls by international human rights institutions to save her life.
In the morning of October 12, three prisoners were hanged in public in Kazeroon for “armed clash” with the military and security forces and “causing insecurity in Bushehr, as well as in Mamasani and Kazeroon counties” on the mullahs’ fabricated charge of “corruption on earth and enmity with God.”
On this same day, in another criminal act, eight prisoners were collectively hanged in Darya Prison in Urmia. Concurrently, six prisoners sentenced to death were hanged in Karaj Central Prison.
On October 10 and 11, four other prisoners were hanged in prisons in Rasht and Bandar Abbas. Mohsen Tima, a prisoner from Bandar Abbas who was arrested when he was 20 years old, was hanged on October 11 after suffering 15 years in the regime’s medieval prisons.
While the noose of infightings inside the regime, growing social discontent, and domestic and international crises tightens around regime’s neck, this regime has found no escape but to ratchet up suppression and increase the barbaric and arbitrary executions to save itself from its certain downfall.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all international agencies to condemn these barbaric executions and urges that any rapprochement with the Iranian regime be made contingent on the improvement of human rights in Iran, particularly the cessation of executions.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 13, 2015
