Mrs. Maryam Rajavi calls on the international community to condemn wave of atrocious hangings, stressing the need to adopt immediate binding measures to stop such medieval brutality
NCRI – On Wednesday morning, January 21, 2009, in an act of sheer cruelty, the regime’s henchmen once more carried out a mass hanging of 10 prisoners at the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. According to obtained reports, on Tuesday, January 20th, 11 prisoners, including Ardalan Nayebi, 38, from Ward 2 and Nasser Mehrani from Ward 6 of Gohardasht prison were transferred to Evin for the implementation of their hanging sentences. On Wednesday, one of the prisoners identified as Ali Panj Ganj, witnessed the shocking scene of 10 people being hanged and was later returned to his cell. He, too, is due to be executed in about a month.
According to the French news agency, AFP, three prisoners identified as Hassan, Alireza, and Mohammad Hassan, were also hanged today at the Yazd prison. This took place while on the day before the regime’s henchmen executed 6 other prisoners at the same prison. With the hanging of a prisoner identified as Gholam in Karaj’s Gohardasht prison and two other inmates identified as Reza Mohammadi, 25, and Jan Mohammad Mohammadi, 40, at Isfahan’s Dastgerd prison, which took place on Tuesday, the number of those hanged in the last 24 hours has increased to 22, which properly falls into the category of war crimes.
The suspicious death of a political prisoner identified as Hashem Ramezani at the Oroumieh prison, and the sentencing by the criminal mullahs in Kermanshah of another political prisoner, Ms. Zeynab Jalalian, 27, from Makou, are considered to be some of the mullahs’ other crimes in recent days.
The President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, described the wave of mass executions and brutal killing of prisoners as the ruling religious fascism’s reaction to mounting dissent and unrest by a disgruntled population as well as to protests by Iranian university students and youth, and added: Without carrying out torture, suppression, murder and hangings, the ruling mullahs cannot continue to rule for even an extra day.
Mrs. Rajavi added that the Western appeasement policy towards the mullahs’ regime and the inaction with regards to the regime’s continuous defiance of international conventions has emboldened the ruling dictatorship in Iran to intensify and increase these crimes.
She called on the international community to condemn the wave of atrocious hangings and stressed on the need for adoption of immediate binding measures to stop such medieval brutality. Mrs. Rajavi demanded referring the human rights abuses dossier of this regime to the UN Security Council.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 21, 2009