NCRI – Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, described execution of 14 prisoners on Monday as a sign of rampant brutality of the Iranian regime and its inability to contain Iranian people’s nationwide protests. Thirteen of these prisoners were executed collectively in Qezel Hessar Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran.
Mrs. Rajavi said: The leaders of the faltering regime of velayat-e faqih (absolute rule of clergy), engulfed in incurable crises, especially the growing rift at the top of the regime that led to physical and verbal quarrel among the most senior officials on the anniversary of Khomeini's death, have found these brutal crimes as their only way to survive. But these crimes would double the Iranian people’s hatred towards the clerical regime and strengthen their resolve to exterminate the velayat-e faqih dictatorship in its entirety.
Reiterating that inaction and hesitation of the international community towards the regime’s crimes and continuing trade and appeasement policy with it has emboldened the regime in committing more crimes, Mrs. Rajavi called on all international and human rights organizations to condemn this brutal crime and call for referral of the clerical regime's flagrant violation of human rights dossier to the UN Security Council.
Names of some of the prisoners executed in Qezel Hessar prison are: Ahmad Shahbaksh, Abdul-Hossein Soltan-Abadi, Massoud, Amir K., Kazem Tashtaki, Mohammad Azarfam, Mohammad Jafari, Nader Azarnoush, Sanjar Tutazehi, Baghi Amini, and Mohammad Moradi. This heinous crime was carried out in the absence of their lawyers. Another prisoner was also hanged in the central prison of Isfahan on the same day.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 8, 2010