Parallel to its warmongering in the region, Iran’s regime continues to ratchet up human rights abuses in its prisons, especially against political prisoners. And the beginning of the new year has shown no respite in this trend of barbaric behavior.
On Tuesday, January 2, regime authorities in Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj executed political prisoner Davood Abdollahi. Abdollahi, a Sunni Kurd hailing from Mahabad, had been in prison for 14 years and was executed while being on a hunger strike for six days.
Abdollahi was arrested in 2009 along with six other people in 2009. All seven were tortured to make incriminating confessions and were sentenced to death by the notorious judge Mohammad Moghiseh under trumped up charges of “undermining national security,” “propaganda against the regime,” and “corruption on Earth.”
In 2018, Abolghassem Salavati, another criminal judge with a terrible track record of human rights abuses, confirmed their death sentence and in 2019, the regime’s supreme court reaffirmed the sentence.
Ghassem Abesteh, another prisoner from the same group, was executed on November 5 and Ayoub Karimi was hanged on November 29. The four remaining prisoners are under the threat of being executed.
And the regime finished the year off with another wave of executions.
Only in five days from December 27 to 31, the regime carried out at least 30 prisoners. The total number of declared executions for 2023 was at least 850, with an alarming uptick in death penalty since the outbreak of the war in Gaza.
Source:
eurasiareview.com, Mahin Horri, Opinion, January 4, 2024
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