The number of executions in the past 22 days reached 75
With the execution of three prisoners in the Kermanshah prison on July 8, six prisoners from July 6 to July 8 in Ardebil and execution of five prisoners in Qazvin, the number of executions that have been announced following sham election in Iran, from June 26 to July 8, has reached 75, four of whom have been executed in public.
Thus, every seven hours one prisoner has been hanged in public or in prisons in various cities. Among those executed six women and a prisoner who was 15-years-old when arrested are seen. A high number of prisoners were executed collectively in groups of 21, 11 and 6 persons. This is while thousands of prisoners in various prisons in the country are on death row.
Meanwhile Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naghdi, commander of the inhuman Bassij force, announced the formation of “Council of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” in more than 50 percent of Bassij sites. Mission of this institution is suppression of youth particularly young women and girls under the mullahs-made pretext of “mal veiling”. The regime’s news sites reported on July 5 the arrest of 50 people in Karaj for water play.
The clerical regime is resorting to wave of executions and suppressive measures in order to heighten the atmosphere of intimidation in the society to contain people’s protest and protesting youth.
The new wave of executions once again exposes the illusion of moderation within the mullahs’ regime after the sham election.
Silence and inaction against appalling and systematic human rights violations in Iran and ignoring the crimes of this regime, regardless of its motives, would only result to emboldening of the criminals ruling Iran and increased repression.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 8, 2013