Maryam Rajavi:Collective executions shows that this regime is bound to no principle
Wave of mass public executions in Karaj, Shiraz, Arak, Zahedan, Kermanshah and other cities
The mullahs’ regime, in the midst of an unbridled infighting for power and fearing an outburst of popular uprisings especially with the sham presidential elections approaching, has resorted to increasing executions and setting up gallows in public. This inhumane regime, with at least 45 counts of executions in just five days, has set a new record in crimes and brutality.
In Karaj, the regime’s agents carried out two ruthless mass executions on February 19th alone by sending 20 prisoners to the gallows, hanging 11 in Ghezzel Hesar and 9 others in Gohardasht prisons.
In Shiraz eleven inmates were hanged on February 17th. Eight were executed in the city’s Adel- Abad prison and three were hanged in public before the eyes of terrified people.
In Arak, three prisoners were hanged in public on February 20th. Three days prior to this 3 others were also hanged in this city’s central prison.
In Kermanshah, three prisoners were hanged on February 20th. On February 18th, nine prisoners in Diesel Abad prison of this city were informed of their death sentences. Malaki, Kermanshah’s criminal prosecutor, threatened further executions, adding that he will take “serious action against criminals and there will be no condoning.”
In Boushehr, one prisoner was executed after seven years in prison, on February 17th.
In Zahedan, four prisoners were executed in the city central prison on February 16th, and in the same day, a prisoner named Omar Shahbazi was executed in Sanandaj prison.
In Ahwaz, a prisoner of fellow Arab minority, called Sabah Lovaimi, 38, was executed in Karoon prison.
Maryam Rajavi said, “these collective and arbitrary executions, especially on the eve of p5+1 negotiations and UN Human Rights Council session, shows that this regime is bound to no principle and law, and hence offering “substantial and serious” suggestions by western countries to criminals ruling Iran encourages them to escalate their crimes.” She underscored that stopping this atrocious trend requires bounding decisions by UN Secretary-General, imposing comprehensive sanctions against this regime, and trial of its officials for these antihuman crimes.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
February 22, 2013
