NCRI – In the run-up to sham election in Iran, the clerical regime in Tehran has intensified carrying out cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment in public including parading young men and boys under age of 18 while blindfolded and with their hands tied wearing prisoners’ clothing.
The Iranian regime’s repressive State Security Forces (police) in the northwestern city of Tabriz on Tuesday cruelly pulled four men out of their cars in a crowded street and paraded them while they were blindfolded and their hands were tied to each other.
In one such incidents in Iran, last year, a young man who had been accused of ‘offering a water pipe and running a teahouse’ at his home, while paraded agonizingly cried: “I am hungry. I have a family. Give me a job. If I have a job, I will not serve water pipes.”
On February 10, security forces paraded two Iranian youths in Farhang Street of city of Sari who made a living by collecting trash on the charge of breaking the glasses of a shop.
The clerical regime in Tehran that is fearing eruption of public protests by the Iranian people particularly the youth who are fed up with poverty, unemployment and suppression, has escalated repressive measure including antihuman punishment of parading young men in the streets to increase fear and terror in the society.
The Iranian Resistance expresses its strong abhorrence for cruel, inhuman and degrading punishments that are being carried in Iran.
The Iranian Resistance calls on human rights organizations, especially those concerned with the protection of the rights of children and youths, to take effective measures to halt this cruel punishment in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
February 18, 2016
