Ayoub Porkar, who has been held at the notorious Evin prison in Tehran for the past year, has also been subjected to continuous torture and pressures by the Iranian regime’s henchmen during his detention. He has now been transferred to solitary confinement in Ward 350 of Evin and spends his days in intolerable conditions.
In the past two months, the clerical regime has sentenced at least six political prisoners to death by hanging. The sentencing and carrying out of the hangings are an attempt to intensify the atmosphere of suppression in society and particularly among the courageous youth who have shown clearly during the nationwide uprising of the past several months that they seek the overthrow of this regime and establishment of democracy and popular sovereignty in Iran.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all international institutions and human rights organizations, particularly the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, to condemn the increasing number of hanging sentences in Iran, and demands the referral of the regime’s dossier on cruel human rights violations in Iran to the UN Security Council for the adoption of urgent and binding measures aimed at stopping this trend.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 3, 2009