Mullahs’ regime executioners hanged Ardeshir Keshavars, a 35-year-old man after enduring 6 years of prison, at 6:30 in the morning, on Wednesday. He had allegedly killed a member of State Security Forces in a conflict in Kermanshah.
Protests by inmates erupted when the news of Ardeshir Keshavarz’s execution was released. They expressed their abhorrence of the mullahs’ regime and their executioners at this prison.
Guards at the prison seemed unable to control the situation and called for reinforcements after one hour. At about 9:00 am the guards viciously stormed the protesting prisoners after reinforcements from other prisons such as Kachuie, Ghezelhesar and Evin joined in with them. The suppressive forces arrested fifteen prisoners and transferred them to an unknown location. After retaking the control of prison, the authorities ransacked the prisoners' belongings. They transferred the protesting prisoners to open air area in the cold weather.
The head of the Rajai-Shahr prison who had come to assist suppression of prisoners, brutally beat a prison guard for defying orders before the eyes of prisoners.
The Iranian Resistance calls on International Human Rights organizations in particular the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and special rapporteurs on arbitrary executions and torture to condemn human rights violations in Iran and demands urgent measures to be adopted to investigate the harsh conditions in mullahs' medieval prisons.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 30, 2009