On the morning of Monday, November 4th, the mullahs’ regime’s henchmen executed Kurdish political prisoner Shirkou Ma’arefi, 32, from the city of Baneh after enduring 5 years of imprisonment and torture in the regime’s medieval dungeons in city of Saghez .
The mullahs’ judicial system, similar to other prisoners, deprived him of any fair due process, and for supporting the Koomeleh Organization, sentenced him to death on the mullah fabricated charge of ‘moharebeh’ (enmity against God).
International organs such as Amnesty International had called for the halt of this appalling verdict.
The execution of Shirkou Ma’arefi comes only 9 days after the hanging of 18 Kurdish and Balouchi political prisoners in the Zahedan, Urumieh and Salmas prisons on charges of ‘moharebeh’. Habibollah Golparipour, 29, and Reza Ismaeeli (Mamadi), 34, were Kurdish political prisoners executed on charges of ‘moharebe’.
Meanwhile, Zanyar, 25, and Loghman, 27, Moradi, two Kurdish political prisoners in the Gohardasht prison are on the verge of execution.
The rising wave of executions, especially political prisoners, proves how hollow and deceptive the widely spread illusion of moderation is in this medieval regime. The mullahs’ regime, incapable of confronting all the deadly domestic and international crises and at a time when the infighting within the regime deepens by the day, by increasing suppression, especially the barbaric death penalty, attempts to prevent the outbreak of the people’s anger and its inevitable overthrow.
The Iranian Resistance calls on the international community to absolutely condemn these executions and urges that Iran’s human rights dossier be referred to the UN Security Council and the leaders of this regime be brought to justice for crimes against humanity.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 4, 2013
Iran: Criminal execution of Kurdish political prisoner Shirkou Ma’arefi in Saghez
