Former political prisoners of Iran living in the United Kingdom gathered outside Downing street last Saturday to draw attention to the multiple human rights violations that are being carried out by Tehran, on the eve of the re-establishing of the British Embassy in the Iranian Capital, the Church Times reported this week.
The President of the Association of Iranian Political Prisoners (in Exile) delivered a letter to the Prime Minister warning of an “alarming rise in the number of executions in Iran during the last year especially in the weeks following the nuclear deal with Iran.”
The letter also urges the British Government to publicly condemn this “spike” in executions and to lobby within the United Nations to take further action against the regime’s human-rights abuses.
Iran has proceeded to hang more than six hundred and fifty people this year as reported by international human rights agencies. Some of those executed allegedly committed crimes as minors.
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond reopened the British Embassy in Iran last Sunday four years after it was closed after being attacked by a mob. He is also the first British Foreign Secretary to visit the capital in the past 12 years and is only the third British Minister to pay a visit to Iran since the 1979 revolution.
The People Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI, or MEK) has also strived to reveal the real face of the regime hiding behind the mask of last months’ nuclear agreement, and has also appealed multiple times to the international community to increase their efforts into stopping the vast human rights violations that are now part of the norm that the regime follows.
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