NCRI – Tehran’s Prosecutor General announced today that the death sentences for six political prisoners who are families of Camp Ashraf residents and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) have been endorsed. Mohammad Ali Saremi, Jaafar Kazemi, Mohsen Daneshpour-Moghadam and his son Ahmad, and Mohammad Ali Haj-Aqai have been sentenced to death because they had visited Camp Ashraf and they have relatives there. According to the prosecutor, the sixth person named Abdulreza Qanbari has been sentenced to death because “on the day of Ashura [uprising] he sent reports to PMOI directly.”
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, described the death sentences on supporters of PMOI and families of Ashraf residents as a sign of the Iranian regime’s helplessness in face of the Iranian people’s uprising and the nationwide and growing support for the Iranian Resistance and the freedom-seeking residents of Ashraf. She added: The criminal mullahs are trying in vain to stop Iranian people’s uprising and their growing support for Ashraf residents by torture and execution of political prisoners and supporters of PMOI. These medieval and heinous crimes will only heat up general public’s hatred against the regime and boost people’s determination to bring down the regime.
Endorsement of the death sentences for families of Ashraf residents takes place at a time when a group of agents of the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and Qods Force, who are posing as families of Ashraf residents, in conjunction with the Iraqi government and military have been assembled at the main gate of Ashraf for the past 100 days. Their actions that amount to psychological torture of Ashraf residents are aimed to provoke chaos and turmoil and set the stage for massacre of the residents
The President-elect of the Iranian Resistance calls on the United Nations Secretary General, Security Council, High Commissioner for Human Rights and other relevant bodies as well as the European Union and its member states to adopt urgent measures to prevent executions of political prisoners in Iran. She said: The international community is facing a crucial test today. The clerical dictatorship, which is a great shame for the humanity in the 21st Century, must be dealt with firmness and rejected by the international community. Economic and political ties with the regime must only continue under one condition and that is when executions and torture are stopped and human rights situation in Iran is improved.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 15, 2010
