Execution of 30 prisoners, including three women, on October 1 and 2, 2024, and 255 executions since Pezeshkian [President of Iran] took office
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi: On the eve of the World Day Against the Death Penalty, I call on the international community to support the campaign against executions and to make relations with the Iranian regime conditional on stopping torture and executions. The regime’s leaders must face justice for crimes against humanity and genocide.
Ali Khamenei, fearing the explosive anger of the people and the escalation of popular uprising, has accelerated the execution and killing machine. On October 1 alone, 13 prisoners were executed, and on October 2, 17 prisoners were executed in various cities across the country. Today, Sunday, October 6, Habibollah Mohammadzahi was executed in Bam prison. On Thursday, October 3, Tayeb Mansouri was executed in Dastgerd prison in Isfahan, and Hamed Hariri, 35, and Reza Soleimanzadeh, 29, were hanged in Gorgan prison.
On Friday, October 4, regime media reported the execution of a prisoner in Ilam for the death of a member of the repressive State Security Force (SSF) in 2017 (government website Defae Moghaddas – October 4, 2024).
On Wednesday, October 2, in a horrific crime, 17 prisoners, including 2 women, were hanged. The execution of 7 of them was announced in the NCRI’s statement on October 3. The other 10 prisoners who fell victim to Khamenei’s killing machine are: Zahra Feizi in Tabriz; Saber Haghmoradi, Ali Mamashlu, Morteza, Abdolhossein, and Moloud Khaledian in Qezelhessar prison; Ayat Abdolfathi in Ahvaz; Seyyed Naser Hosseini, Abbas Khodayari, and Mohammad Chaman Pira in Shiraz; and a prisoner with the initials H-Z in Torbat Heydariyeh.
On Tuesday, October 1, 13 prisoners were executed. In addition to the 9 people announced in the previous statement, Akhtar Ghorbanloo in Ahar, Ali Bahrami and Mostafa Kavandi in Zanjan, and Ghaffar Hivehchi in Gonbad Kavus were executed. Thus, the number of recorded executions since July when Massoud Pezeshkian took office amounts to at least 255.
In another tragedy on October 3, Mahmoud Dahmardeh, a prisoner sentenced to death, died of a heart attack and lack of medical care in Zabol prison.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said that as long as this regime is in power, neither torture and executions in Iran nor war and terror in the region will end, and the region will not see peace and tranquility.
On the eve of the World Day Against the Death Penalty, she called on the international community to support the campaign against executions and to make diplomatic and trade relations with the regime conditional on stopping torture and executions. She said that the regime’s leaders should face justice for four decades of crimes against humanity and genocide.
Source:
NCRI, Staff, October 6, 2024
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"One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed,
but by the punishments that the good have inflicted."
— Oscar Wilde
