UN Special Rapporteur: An Upsurge In Executions And Suppression In Iran

UN Special Rapporteur: an upsurge in executions and suppression in Iran

In his recent report, Mr. Javid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, criticized the increase in executions and suppression inside the country.

Abolish Sentencing Children to Death in Iran – UN Special Rapporteur (Press Conference)

On Oct 24, 2018, in a press conference held after the UN session, the UN Special Rapporteur expressed his concern about the huge number of prisoners in Iran, including:

• Environmental activists, who are facing the death penalty charged with “corruption on earth”.
• Women, who are arrested for protesting against the compulsory hijab.
• At least 8,000 people who were arrested during the January protests, and are threatened with the death penalty.

The UN special rapporteur advised that the UN continue to monitor the ever increasing protests in Iran, and the Regime’s suppression and mistreatment of those arrested and detained. Many Iranian prisoners have died since the beginning of the year under suspicious circumstances, likely whilst being tortured, but the Regime claims that “these are suicides and rejects a full investigation of the facts”.

As a matter of fact, what can be realized from the UN special rapporteur’s primary report, is that the human rights situation in Iran is calamitous, just like the political and socio-economic situation of the country. By appointing a UN special rapporteur.

The international community is holding the mullahs’ regime accountable. However, despite repeated requests, the regime denies the UN special rapporteur and human rights monitors permission to look into the situation directly by going to Iran. No one has visited the country since 2005 for inspection of the human rights situation.

Therefore, the Iranian society expects that the United Nations Human Rights Council takes their protests into consideration and addresses the dire human rights situation in Iran. The next reports of the UN special rapporteur must deeply unveil this catastrophic human rights situation for the international community.

As the UN special rapporteur, Mr. Javid Rehman is tasked with scrutinizing the human rights situation in Iran, the eyes are on him for thoroughly exposing the human rights violation committed by the mullahs regime. He is also expected to take urgent action to compel this medieval regime to release all the detainees of the recent uprisings and to abolish its cruel punishments including torture, the death penalty, deprivation of medical care and etc.

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MARYAM RAJAVI’S MESSAGE TO THE “NO TO EXECUTIONS AND TERRORISM” CONFERENCE HELD AT DISTRICT 5 MUNICIPALITY IN PARIS

On the World Day against the Death Penalty, Maryam Rajavi addressed a message to the participants in a conference at the District 5 Municipality of Paris. Following is the full text of her remarks:

The World Day Against the Death Penalty is to promote a universal value to defend the sanctity of human life. At the same time, it points the finger at the mullahs’ theocratic regime for being the world’s top record holder of executions and for relying on massacres.

Let us salute the 120,000 valiant children of Iran, including the political prisoners massacred in 1988, who were executed by the regime for fighting for freedom.
Their deaths are an everlasting disgrace for the mullahs who have built the pillars of their rule on blood. They are devoid of any popular, humanitarian, or historic legitimacy, and the overthrow of their regime is the urgent objective of the nationalist struggles of the Iranian people and Resistance. A goal which will most certainly be realized beyond a shadow of a doubt.

According to Amnesty International, the Iranian regime carried out 507 death sentences last year. The actual number is much higher because the regime prevents the announcements of a large number of executions. As in the previous years, thousands of people are also lingering in Khamenei’s prisons across the country on the death-row, their lives being enchained as part of the society.

In addition, the mullahs viciously continue to execute prisoners who were juveniles at the time of their alleged crime. The Iranian regime is the record holder in the executions of juvenile offenders, contrary to international laws and conventions.
The velayat-e faqih regime has further resorted to more executions of political prisoners in a bid to counter the uprisings and the nationwide protest movement. Nine political prisoners were executed just this last month. At least 14 protesters arrested during the December-January uprisings have been tortured to death in the mullahs’ dungeons, but the regime projects these murders as “suicides.”

The death penalty is a tool for terrorizing the society and a significant instrument for preserving the regime. Both factions benefit from such endless savagery to prolong the regime’s rule.

The regime’s two main factions are at each other’s throat racing for their own share of power and wealth. However, they are complicit and in accord on the execution of prisoners, on suppression at home and on terrorism abroad. While the infamous Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and the terrorist Quds Force are in charge of carrying out the homicidal terrorist plots, the government and the Foreign Ministry are tasked with justifying or denying their role.

The regime’s abortive scheme to strike at the annual gathering of the Iranian Resistance in Paris and its other terrorist plots against the Iranian Resistance in Albania and the U.S., were carried out by Rouhani’s government in full complicity with other murderous institutions of the regime.

The mullahs’ terrorism abroad is an extension of its policy of executions and torture at home. The two policies are part and parcel and it is not possible to advance one without the other.
I urge the world’s governments to stop their political and economic relations with the Iranian regime unless the regime ends torture and executions of prisoners and abandons its involvement in terrorism.

I call on my fellow countrymen and women across the nation to stand up and actively resist against the executions and arrests, and prevent the ruling mullahs from making use of this criminal tool through every possible means.

Thousands upon thousands of Iranians have been sent, one by one, to the gallows or before the firing squads over the past 40 years, under the mullahs’ rule. They are no longer able to feel the warmth of the sun and the energy of life, but as a result of their sacrifice, the dawn is near for the Iranian nation and the mullahs’ religious tyranny is doomed to go.

Thanks to the Iranian people’s Resistance and uprisings, freedom and popular sovereignty are looming in the horizon. The day is not far when the Iranian people will be able to live free from the menace of executions and torture, and Iran will become a garden blessed with freedom and justice.

• TAGS: Iranian Resistance, people of Iran, Violation of Human Rights

Eighteen executions across Iran as MEPs visit Tehran

Iran regime has executed 18 prisoners as MEP visits the country

Iran executed 18 prisoners from the 22nd to the 29th of November. Ten of these hangings were carried out in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran, including the mass execution of nine prisoners on Wednesday, November 29th. Six prisoners were executed in Tabriz Central Prison on November 22nd and the 26th. Two prisoners were hanged in the prisons of Babol (northern Iran) and Qaen (eastern Iran) on November 28th.
Continuous executions by the mullahs’ regime, coinciding with a visit by the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with Iran to Tehran, proves the fact that moderation is nothing but an illusion and deception in the religious fascism ruling Iran. The murderers ruling Iran, unable to confront increasing protest movements across the country, cannot afford to stop executions, torture and lashing for even a few days.
The Iranian people, no longer willing to tolerate this regime, abhor any aid provided to the repressive and corrupt mullahs’ regime. They also condemn despicable economic deals with a regime that plunders this nation and spills their blood.
Visits by foreign delegations to Iran under any excuse and/or pretext only encourage the criminal mullahs to continue and expand their crackdown, executions and harsh security measures. Any relations with this regime must hinge on improving Iran’s human rights situation, especially halting all executions.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran