Iran’s regime continues its alarming wave of executions because it struggles with a number of crises at residence and overseas. According to a brand new assertion by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the regime hanged 9 prisoners from January 21 to January 23. These executions are happening because the regime continues to grapple with unrest from completely different segments of society and has didn’t stifle dissent throughout the nation. The regime has ramped up executions after the start of the struggle in Gaza, ending 2023 with greater than 850 executions and starting 2024 with an unprecedented rise in demise sentences.
At the identical time, the regime is resorting to extra demise sentences towards political prisoners. After finishing up two political executions final week, the regime’s judiciary has handed out demise sentences to extra political prisoners. The regime is being particularly harsh in the direction of spiritual and ethnic minorities.
A regime court docket in Khuzestan sentenced Arab political prisoner Ali Obaidavi on prices of attacking a Basij base in Hamidiyeh district on prices of attacking a Basij base through the 2019. His brother Hossein was sentenced to 13 years in jail by the identical court docket.
The regime’s Supreme Court additionally confirmed the demise sentence of Kurdish political prisoner Yousef Ahmadi, the 38-year-old father of three. He was arrested in 2020 and uncovered to extreme bodily and psychological torture in Sanandaj. The regime’s Revolutionary Court sentenced Ahmadi to demise in August 2023 on prices of killing two members of the Revolutionary Guards. Three different defendants on this case have been sentenced to twenty and 25 years every.
These sentences come on the again of the execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou, one of many protesters from the 2022 rebellion, and Farhad Salimi, a Kurdish political prisoner who had been held in jail since 2009.
This sentence comes towards the backdrop of an uptick in violent punishments. The regime lately minimize off the hand of an individual charged with theft and flogged a girl who had allegedly violated the regime’s misogynistic hijab legal guidelines.
And the regime is making it clear that it’s going to proceed to ramp up violent measures.
The Mizan information company, affiliated with the regime’s judiciary, quoted Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, the pinnacle of the judiciary, on Wednesday, January 24, as saying, “All points can’t be resolved with preaching, and we should go after those that, in an organized method and with their affiliation to foreigners, intend to face towards the individuals’s values and their psychological and bodily safety.”
Ejei instructed prosecutors throughout the nation to “significantly deal with this difficulty” and work with the safety equipment to “determine and prosecute and punish organized and foreign-affiliated parts who commit irregularities with out leniency and throughout the framework of the regulation.”
The worldwide group has a accountability to carry the regime to account for its human rights abuses. The regime’s supreme chief Ali Khamenei and his senior officers, together with regime president Ebrahim Raisi and Ejei, should be tried for his or her crimes towards humanity.
But so far as the individuals of Iran are involved, the regime’s repressive measures are usually not having the impact that the regime wished for. The extra the regime ramps up executions and repression, the extra the individuals—particularly the youth—change into defiant of their resistance towards the regime.
On January 24, the state-run Didar web site wrote, “Even the insiders throughout the political institution and the weather throughout the system see the continuation of this pattern as inconceivable. With pressure, threats, jail, and execution, society can’t persist…. One to 1 and a half years from now, not much more, society can not tolerate it…. Rest assured this dam will break, and if it breaks, everybody will likely be harmed.”