Amid widespread protests in opposition to the executions carried out by the Islamic Republic and the starvation strike of quite a few political and ideological prisoners to halt executions in Iran, a human rights group reported the execution of no less than three prisoners in Shiraz.
According to the human rights activists in Iran, on Thursday, the fifth of Bahman, the authorities of the Islamic Republic executed no less than three prisoners for crimes associated to homicide and medicines in Adelabad and Pirbanu prisons in Shiraz.
Harana’s report revealed the identities of two of the executed prisoners as “Fazel Shafiei, 40 years outdated” and “Morteza Nadimi, 35 years outdated”, who have been each arrested a number of years in the past on narcotics fees and sentenced to dying.
The report additionally talked about that the third prisoner, who was executed in Pirbanu jail in Shiraz, was arrested 5 years in the past on fees of homicide and was additionally sentenced to dying.
These executions befell simply earlier than the scheduled go to of Neda Al-Nashif, the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations to Iran. Shirin Ebadi, the top of the Human Rights Defenders Center, urged Neda Al-Nashif to cancel her journey to Iran because of the growing variety of executions by the Islamic Republic.
Neda Al-Nashif’s go to to Iran was meant to handle human rights points associated to execution and ladies’s rights. The Secretary General of the United Nations had beforehand expressed concern over the excessive charge of executions within the Islamic Republic and referred to as for a right away halt to all executions.
Meanwhile, 61 political and non secular prisoners within the ladies’s ward of Evin Prison initiated a public starvation strike to protest in opposition to the wave of executions. This motion obtained solidarity from quite a few political and civil activists in Iran and overseas.
A senior official of the American authorities additionally emphasised the shortage of democracy and transparency in varied sectors of the political system within the Islamic Republic of Iran, together with administration, judiciary, and elections.
Vedant Patel famous that the world has been conscious of this lack of transparency for a while.