A Feb. 2023 protest in Washington, DC calling for an finish to executions and human rights violations in Iran. Photo: Reuters/ Bryan Olin Dozier
Iran on Monday executed 4 Kurdish political prisoners accused by the Islamist regime of planning a bombing assault within the central metropolis of Isfahan that was supposedly orchestrated by Israel’s Mossad intelligence company.
“The demise sentence of 4 members of a gaggle affiliated with the Zionist spy group … was carried out this morning,” the Iranian judiciary’s web site Mizan Online reported.
The 4 Kurds have been all members of the left-wing Komala Party, one in all a number of Kurdish organizations banned by the Iranian regime, in line with the Kurdish information web site. Rudaw.
The US authorities condemned the executions in an announcement on Tuesday, excoriating Iran’s “blatant disregard for human rights” and emphasizing that it had obtained stories of “torture and unfair trials.”
General strikes have been held in protest of the executions at bazaars within the cities of Mahabad, Dehgolan, Marivan, Divandarreh, Kermanshah, Bukan, Saqqez, Sanandaj and Sarvabad, in line with images and movies revealed on Kurdish social media in Iran. Videos additionally depicted massive numbers of individuals visiting the homes of the executed prisoners’ households in Bukan, Dehgolan, Kamyaran, and Mahabad to pay their respects and categorical solidarity with them. Rudaw reported.
According to the Kurdish Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, web and phone providers have been disrupted in lots of Iran’s Kurdish cities, and helicopters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are patrolling the sky in a number of cities as properly. A lot of safety forces have been deployed to the areas the place the strikes are being held.
In December, Hengaw reported that Iranian prisons had executed 144 Kurdish prisoners in 2023, a big rise on the earlier 12 months, when Iran executed 52 Kurdish prisoners.
Many of those that are executed in Iran — which executes extra prisoners yearly than every other nation bar China — are convicted based mostly on confessions typically obtained below duress, Hengaw confused.