three hangings and suspicious death of a political prisoner in Orumieh
One of those hanged was 17 at the time of the alleged crime
NCRI – The state-run Kayhan daily wrote on January 13, that Mojtaba R. and M. H-A, 24, were hanged in public in the township of Jahrom (Fars province).
According to obtained reports from inside the regime’s prisons, the mullahs’ henchmen had also hanged Ahmad Zarei, 23, who was 17 at the time of his alleged crime, in the central prison of Sanandaj on December 25, 2008.
Moreover, Hashem Ramezani, a 45-year-old resident of northwestern city of Mahabad, was arrested early January 2009 on political charges by the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) agents in Mahabad. He was transferred to the MOIS headquarters in Orumieh, and four days later, was mysteriously murdered in prison. He was married and is survived by several children.
Ebrahim Lotfollahi, Zahra Bani-Yaghoub (medical doctor), Zahra Kazemi (Iranian-Canadian journalist), Akbar Mohammadi (university student), and members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) Valiollah Feyz-Mahdavi and Abdolreza Rajabi (worker and father of five) have been among prisoners mysteriously killed while incarcerated in the regime’s prisons.
Meanwhile, on January 13, the mullahs’ judiciary spokesman confirmed reports first exposed by the Iranian Resistance about the secret and brutal stoning on December 26, 2008 of three people in the Behesht-Reza cemetery in the holy city of Mashhad.
Prior to this, in a deceptive move, Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, head of the mullahs’ judiciary, had announced a ban on implementing stoning sentences. The regime’s judiciary spokesman explained about this clear inconsistency as well as the rationale for implementing the cruel punishment by stoning, and said, “In view of the judges’ independence, it is possible that as long as the ban on stoning has not become law, the recommendations of the head of the judiciary would not be acted upon.”
The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights organizations and authorities, especially the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to condemn the deteriorating human rights conditions in Iran, and stresses on the need, now more than ever, to refer the human rights abuses dossier in Iran to the UN Security Council for the adoption of immediate and binding measures.
Secretariat of the National council of resistance of Iran
January 14, 2009
