“The oppressive regime of the Islamic Republic has obstructed the handing over of the our bodies of our family members and knowledgeable the households that they intend to bury them in an undisclosed location,” Joanna Taimasi, the spouse of executed prisoner Mohsen Mazloum, stated.
Several human rights organizations within the Kurdish areas of north-west Iran, generally known as Rojhilat, collectively known as for protest motion towards the executions and rights violations. Businesses have been closed on Tuesday within the cities of Marivan, Saqqez, Sanandaj, Mahabad, Dehgolan, Bukan, Diwandre and others.
The worldwide neighborhood, already alarmed by the escalating wave of executions in Iran, has been vocal in its condemnation. A coalition of 25 worldwide human rights organizations urged UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif to postpone her deliberate journey to Iran on February 3.
The go to may very well be used for propaganda functions to whitewash Iran’s human rights document, significantly within the wake of latest executions, the coalition warned.
The Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) government committee, a Brussels-based Kurdish umbrella group, accused the Iranian authorities of hypocrisy because it continues brutality towards the Kurdish folks whereas trying to painting itself as a guardian of rights for Palestinians.
“The killing of those that demand human and cultural rights and lift their voices for self-determination is an indictment of the oppressive, bloodthirsty Iranian regime,” the KNK stated.
The 4 males, Mohsen Mazloum, Pejman Fatehi, Vafa Azarbar and Mohammad Faramarzi have been executed after 18 months of incommunicado detention and a secret trial broadly criticized for its unfairness.
The dying sentences have been handed with out unbiased authorized illustration and with out the correct to enchantment. Charges towards them included spying for the Mossad, the Israeli secret service.
The executions added to long-standing worldwide criticism of Iran’s human rights document, significantly relating to minority teams, and added to a development of concentrating on Kurdish activists and dissidents in Iran.