The Iranian Resistance urges immediate action by the UN Secretary-General, the Security Council, the Human Rights Council, relevant UN Rapporteurs, and all human rights agencies throughout the world to save the lives of seven Sunni political prisoners on the verge of execution.
The Iranian Resistance also calls on religious leaders and scholars worldwide, as well as Muslim clerics, Sunni or Shia, to join the campaign against these criminal executions.
Six of these prisoners, Messrs. Kaveh Vaissi, Pouria Mohammadi, Taleb Maleki, Mohammad Yavar Rahimi, Kaveh Sharifi and Bahman Rahimi were transferred on November 1 to Ward 4 of Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison in Karaj that is controlled by the Revolutionary Guards. All of these prisoners have been sentenced to death on the mullah-fabricated charge of “propaganda against the system, corruption of earth, and Moharebeh (enmity against God).”
There is no news on the condition of Mr. Haidar Rashidi, another Sunni prisoner that was transferred to Ward 4 of Gohardasht along with the other six, and there is also concern for his life.
Similarly, on March 4, 2015, six other Sunni political prisoners Messrs. Hamed Ahmadi, Jahangir and Jamshid Dehghani (two 28 and 29 year old brothers), Kamal Molai, Sediq Mohammadi, and Hadi Hosseini, 31, were hanged while they were on hunger strike and injured because of their battering by the Revolutionary Guards.
The Iranian regime, especially following its one step involuntary retreat in its nuclear weapons project, is facing increasing domestic and international crises. In order to prevent a widespread popular uprising and an explosion of ire of a fed up population, it has found its only resort in further suppression and massacre of defenseless prisoners, atrocities that more than ever betray the myth of moderation of this oppressive regime.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 4, 2015
