Seventeen pupil teams throughout Iran have issued a joint assertion in opposition to demise sentences for a number of political prisoners, labeling them “state-sponsored homicide.”
In a joint assertion launched Thursday, the scholar activists asserted their refusal to stay silent below any circumstances, stating, “We won’t tolerate executions, and we are going to obliterate the executioner authorities.”
The signatories, who recognized themselves as “fighters and revolutionaries of Women, Life, Freedom,” additionally urged nationwide protest rallies in opposition to the latest surge in executionsthroughout the nation.
A latest report by the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) group disclosed a surprising 33-percent enhance in executions in Iran final 12 months, with at the very least 791 people put to demise. Over one-fifth of these executed belonged to the predominantly Sunni Baluch group, indicating a disproportionate affect on ethnicminorities. According to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), at the very least 12 prisoners in Iran charged with political or security-related offenses now face demise sentences.
The pupil unions additional vowed help for folks presently dealing with execution, together with Reza (Gholamreza) Rasaei, Mojahed (Abbas) KourkourMansour Dahmardeh, Farshid Hossein-Zehi, Vafa Azarbar, Mohammad Faramarzi, Pejman Fatehi, and Mohsen Mazloum, eight political prisoners condemned to demise by Iran’s Supreme Court.
Among them, Mohsen Mazloum, Pejman Fatehi, Vafa Azarbar, and Hojir Faramarzi are Kurdish political prisoners sentenced to demise by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court.
Kourkour is among the many detainees of the nationwide rebellion in Izeh, arrested on December 20, 2022 throughout an armed assault by safety and legislation enforcement forces on a village close to Izeh. The judiciary identifies him because the “predominant suspect” within the killing of 10-year-old Kian Pirfalak, however Kian’s household steadfastly maintains that the perpetrators have been authorities forces. The scenario has raised worldwide concern over the due course of and human rights in Iran.
Rasaei faces accusations of “homicide” in reference to the demise of Nader Beirami, the pinnacle of intelligence in Sanandaj, throughout a protest within the metropolis on November 17, 2022. According to the human rightsgroup Amnesty International, Rasaei was subjected to an “unfair trial” on October 7 in Kermanshah province along with his compelled confessions below torture. His mom, Azardokht Haqjouyan has mentioned her son’s in depth 1,500-page case file had been reviewed inside every week.
Rasaei hails from Iran’s marginalized Kurdish and Yarsan ethnic and religiousminorities. The Yarsan religion, also referred to as Ahl-e Haqq, is among the many oldest Middle Eastern spiritual traditions, with an estimated three million followers in Iran, primarily within the western Kurdishregions, and an extra 120,000 to 150,000 in Iraq, often known as Kaka’i. Yarsan adherents have encountered numerous challenges, together with difficulties in registering their kids as Yarsan at beginning, restrictions on setting up locations of worship, and the fixed worry of persecution for printing their holy e book.
According to the signatories of the assertion, “The authorities, by way of creating worry and terror by issuing and implementing execution orders, is in search of an escape from the escalating political, cultural, financial, and worldwide crises.” They claimed that the Islamic Republic believes that by executing protesters and dissidents, it could actually intimidate society, suppress the revolution, and quell protests. The pupil organizations, nonetheless, denounced such a perception as a delusion and emphasised their dedication to the destruction of the Islamic Republic.