NCRI – In yet another criminal act, the inhuman and misogynist regime of mullahs executed Saturday, January 29, Zahra Bahrami, 46, mother of two children, who was arrested in January 2009 following Ashura uprising. She was the ninetieth prisoner executed by the clerical regime since the beginning of 2011.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, described the regime’s goal of this savage execution as creating fear and terror among the nation, especially the enraged women who seek the overthrow of the religious fascism ruling Iran. She urged the international community to condemn the execution of Zahra Bahrami and the growing trend of executions in Iran and to impose comprehensive sanctions on this regime which is the disgrace of modern world for systematic and continuous violation of human rights.
Mrs. Rajavi added: The time has come for the countries, especially the European Union, not to limit themselves to issuing declarations, but to cut their economic and diplomatic ties with this medieval regime and to discontinue fueling its machine of crime, torture and execution.
The European Union and its member states, particularly Netherlands, where Zahra Bahrami was its citizen, made no effective and active effort to prevent her execution. Accordingly, they hold a double responsibility with regard to this heinous crime.
In its January 16 statement, the Amnesty International condemned the death sentence for Zahra Bahrami who had gone to Iran to see her daughter and wrote that she was held for a long time without access to her family, harassed, beaten and forced to participate in television shows for forced confessions.
In its resolution of 7 September 2010, the European Parliament asked for freedom of Zahra Bahrami and her free access to her lawyer.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 29, 2011