The clerical regime that is rapidly moving on the course of its downfall is trying in vain to prevent spread and deepening of the nationwide uprising by executing political prisoners and those detained in the uprising. Execution of political prisoners, killing of demonstrators on streets, torture and rape of the detainees and prisoners in dungeons like Kahrizak, would only reinforce the Iranian people’s resolve to continue and intensify their uprising to consolidate the complete change of the ruling dictatorship.
During the past few months, the regime has been trying to prepare the grounds for execution of detainees of the uprising by organizing kangaroo trials and extracting forced confessions. Following the uprising on the day of Ashura, a range of officials of the regime described people who have revolted against the regime as Mohareb [fighters against God] punishable by execution. According to the regime’s barbaric law, Mohareb is punishable by execution in various forms such as hanging, amputating right arm and left leg, and sending to exile.
The Iranian Resistance warns about killing of massive number of detainees of the uprising and political prisoners and calls on the Secretary General of the United Nations, UN Security Council, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and other human rights organizations to take urgent measures to prevent execution of political prisoners. The inaction by the international community with regard to the clerical regime’s barbarism has offered the ruling mullahs open hand to kill and execute those who seek freedom in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 8, 2010