Execution of political prisoner Edris Jamshidzehi, a Baluch compatriot, after 7 years of imprisonment and torture
Urgent call to action for the release of political prisoners and to save prisoners facing execution
On the morning of Thursday, July 18, 2024, Khamenei’s executioners hanged 45-year-old political prisoner Edris Jamshidzehi, a Baluch compatriot, in Zahedan prison after 7 years of imprisonment and torture.
Edris, from the village of Tigh-Ap in Iranshahr county, was arrested in June 2017 for the killing of Abdolkarim Sajjadi, the criminal commander of the Basij in Iranshahr. He was sentenced to death on charges of “acting against national security” and “waging war against God.” This despised Basij member was sent to Syria by Qasem Soleimani and participated in the massacre of people in that country for a long time.
On the other hand, on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, political prisoners in 11 prisons went on a hunger strike for the twenty-fifth week as part of the “No to Execution Tuesdays Campaign.”
The religious fascism ruling Iran desperately tries to prevent the explosion of people’s anger and its inevitable overthrow through executions, killings, and warmongering.
The Iranian Resistance once again calls on the High Commissioner and the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur on Iran, and other relevant UN bodies, as well as the European Union and its member states, to take urgent action to save the lives of prisoners facing execution and to free political prisoners in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
18 July 2024
