Continuation of the wave of executions and prisoners’ protests in Isfahan’s Dastgerd Prison
11 executions in one week in Isfahan
Last night (Monday, May 6), when the regime’s henchmen attempted to transfer four death row prisoners named Masoud Estaki, Jafar Hosseinzadeh, Majid Rezai, and Mostafa Aghamohammadi to solitary confinement for execution in Isfahan’s Dastgerd Prison, other prisoners objected and tried to prevent their transfer. The day before (Sunday, May 5), the regime’s henchmen hanged a prisoner named Hossein Bayazidi in the same prison. Thus, the number of executions in Isfahan’s prison within a week (April 28 to May 5) reaches at least 11 individuals.
On the other hand, political prisoner Mahmoud Mehrabi, detained in Isfahan’s Dastgerd Prison, was sentenced to death by Branch 5 of the regime’s Revolutionary Court in Isfahan on May 5. Today, the regime’s website, Aftab News, justified this criminal verdict by stating: “This individual has, during the 2022 riots in cyberspace, spread content including instructions on using handmade weapons, incited destruction of public property, instigated people to war and massacre, and insulted sanctities.” Mahmoud Mehrabi, 35, has been arrested multiple times since 2017.
Iranian Resistance once again demands urgent action from the UN High Commissioner and Human Rights Council, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, to save the lives of prisoners, especially political prisoners, and reemphasizes the necessity of an international fact-finding mission to visit Iranian prisons and meeting with prisoners.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
7 May 2024
