NCRI – On February 20, the clerical regime hanged a Sunni prisoner, Haj Dadollah Moradzehi, after eight months of imprisonment in the city of Zahedan. The execution took place even as many Sunni clerics and trustees in the province of Sistan and Baluchistan had called against it, describing the victim as someone who had helped build many of the Sunni mosques in the region.
The victim’s nephew, Khodayar Rahmat-Zehi-Shahnavazi, 35, had also been executed on January 23, 2010, after spending 4 years in prison. He was arrested after a bomb exploded in front of his residence.
Two other prisoners identified as Abdollah A., 46, and Mehdi S., 36, were executed at the central prison of Isfahan (state-run daily Kayhan, February 22, 2010).
Meanwhile, Ahmad-Reza Rashidi, the Deputy Public Prosecutor in Ahvaz, revealed sentences for 38 executions and retributions as well as 4 ruthless amputations in Ahvaz since March 2009. While insisting on the need to implement the sentences promptly, Rashidi complained about the due process that causes several months of delays in carrying out the punishments (state-run media, February 20, 2010).
In the past years, the clerical regime has repeatedly executed political prisoners as “drug smugglers” and petty criminals.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
February 23, 2010