NCRI – The Finnish foreign ministry said in a statement Friday it had summoned the Iranian ambassador over "Iran's human rights violations", Finnish News Agency (STT) reported.
Pertti Torstila, a secretary of state at the Finnish foreign ministry, condemned the execution of Delara Darabi and urged Iran not to carry out the two other death sentences, pointing out that they violated international human rights conventions to which Iran was a party, the report added.
He added Finland also condemned a stoning carried out in March and called on Iran to abolish stoning.
On May 1, Delara Darabi, 23, was hanged, despite widespread international opposition. Her execution shocked all freedom loving and democratic forces around the world.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, described the execution of the young woman, who at the time of the crime attributed to her was only 17 as a sign of savagery, barbarism and misogyny of the medieval regime ruling Iran. She urged the international community to condemn this unprecedented and hideous crime.
Iran regime’s henchmen also hanged four people in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, including a 30-year-old woman, and five others in the southern city of Kerman, state-run media reported on Thursday. May 7.
Iranian regime does not publish official figures on executions. The number of executions since the beginning of 2009 has reached up to 170.
