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| Public execution in Shiraz, Iran, September 2014 |
Head of Supreme Human Rights Council in Iranian regime’s judiciary says executions are part of fighting narcotics and world should be grateful to us for that
NCRI - Along with the anti-human crime of throwing acid into the faces of defenseless women in Iran, the wave of executions in the cities across the country has increased.
In the span of 12 days (October 18 to 29) at least 55 prisoners have been executed in Iran. The real figure is much larger as the Iranian regime does not provide information on every execution being carried out in numerous prisons throughout the country.
A group of 17 prisoners were secretly hanged on Monday (October 27, 2014) in city of Taybad in northeastern Iran and 47 others are on death row. These executions followed the hanging of a group of eight inmates on October 18 in the same prison
Ten more prisoners were secretly hanged in the central prison in the western city of Orumiyeh, including Ebrahim Choupani, a severely mentally disturbed prisoner who was hanged on October 29.
Four other prisoners were also hanged early in the morning of October 27 in the same prison after another group of five were hanged on October 18 in a different prison in the city known as Darya.
At the insistence of regime’s officials, Rayhaneh Jabbari, a 26-year-old student and decorator was executed on October 25 in Gohardasht Prison in the city of Karaj after suffering seven and a half years of imprisonment. Mohammad Ghorbanzadeh, a male prisoner, was also hanged along with Rayhaneh.
In Rasht, according to the official website of Gilan’s province’s judiciary, nine people were executed between October 18 and 25 in that province, including a citizen of Afghanistan who was hanged on October 18.
A group of six prisoners were secretly hanged on October 23 in Adel Abad Prison in the city of Shiraz and two prisoners, including Dadkhoda Narouei, were secretly hanged in city of Kerman’s Shahab Prison.
On October 19, Fardin Ja’afarian, 18, was hanged in Tabriz. At the time of his arrest and alleged crime he was 14. This unlawful hanging severely violates many international conventions, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
On that same day, a group of eight prisoners were hanged in Ghezel Hessar Prison in Karaj. Also, on October 21, eight other prisoners were transferred to isolation to await their execution.
The Iranian regime - known by the people as the “Godfather of ISIS” - faced with the people’s wrath and revulsion of the intensifying suppression in the country and particularly following the recent wave of throwing acid onto Iranian women and girls, has resorted to a surge in executions to increase intimidation and fear in society
The executions are carried out with the approval and insistence of the most senior officials of this regime.
Reacting to reports by international bodies condemning the violation of human rights in Iran, Sadegh Larijani, the head of the regime’s Judiciary, said: “The more they attack us on the issue of human rights, the more resolute we become in carrying out the verdicts,” to state-run YJC.ir affiliated to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) on October 15.
In an interview with CNN, Mohammad Javad Larijani, the head of the regime’s Supreme Council for Human Rights, brazenly said: “The report by Ahmed Shaheed [The UN Rapporteur on Situation of Human Rights in Iran] is neither credible nor objective. Yes, we do have executions in Iran, but the majority of them relate to narcotics and all the world, including the United States, and other Western communities, benefit from Iran’s combat against narcotics. Therefore, the Western world should appreciate Iran’s unilateral unrelenting war with narcotic crimes.”
Once again, the Iranian Resistance emphasizes that turning a blind eye to the international community regarding the catastrophic situation of human rights in Iran, will only embolden the criminals ruling that country. The only way to confront this savagery is through the adoption of a firm policy with regard to the religious dictatorship ruling Iran.
Source: Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, October 30, 2014