NCRI – The clerical regime executed 13 political prisoners in Zahedan, provincial capital of Sistan and Baluchestan in southeast Iran, at dawn on Tuesday. They were accused of “Waging war on God,” and “Spreading corruption on earth.”
The aim of the mass execution by the regime is to create fear in order to prevent the spread of popular uprising in the province. The victims had spent months in critical condition under torture and were deprived of the right to legal counsel or a fair trial. The clerical regime is extremely fearful of the deprived people in this province and their rage against it over repression, discrimination and poverty.
IRNA, the mullahs’ official news agency, reported on Monday that the victims were to be hanged in public and the regime invited people to attend the event, but, in fear of general outrage, the regime was compelled to carry out the executions inside the prison in Zahedan.
The Iranian Resistance offers its condolences to the bereaved families of those executed today and calls on all international human rights organizations to condemn this heinous crime. It also calls for the referral of the regime’s dossier on brutal suppression of peaceful demonstrators, mass and arbitrary executions, and systematic suppression of religious and ethnic minorities to the UN Security Council for adoption of immediate measures to stop them.
Inaction and delay by the international community in the face of the regime’s crimes and its continued appeasement by the West has only emboldened the regime in its crimes and executions.
The clerical regime’s record in the past month includes at least 50 executions, and it has killed more than 300 people in peaceful anti-government demonstrations, and injured and arrested thousands of others, and it has tortured many detainees in some cases to death.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 14, 2009
