Iran’s execution on Tuesday of a ninth younger man, Mohammad Ghobadlou, for the 2022 protests has angered Iranians and rights teams, who name it “state-murder”.
“Mohammad Ghobadlu’s execution is an extrajudicial killing based on worldwide legislation and the Islamic Republic’s personal legal guidelines,” Mahmoud Amiry-Moghaddam, director of the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR NGO) stated in regards to the execution.
While demanding Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and its judiciary to be held accountable for the execution, Amiry-Moghaddam urged the worldwide neighborhood and nations with diplomatic relations with Iran to sentence the hanging within the strongest phrases and “cease additional executions by elevating the political price.” of executions by means of efficient motion.”
Center for Human Rights in Iran, one other Iranian rights group which relies in New York, additionally known as Ghobadlou’s execution a state-sanctioned homicide and urged the fact-finding mission mandated by the United Nations over Iran’s human rights violations to analyze its dimensions.
“The head of the judiciary should cease the arbitrary execution of Mohamed Ghobadlou, abruptly and unlawfully scheduled for tomorrow. The case of this younger man with a incapacity arrested in reference to the 2022 protests has been marred by torture and secretive proceedings,” Amnesty International tweeted hours earlier than the execution.
Despite Ghobadlu’s sentence being overturned by Iran’s Supreme Court final yr, his execution has pushed many to name for a complete rejection of the clerical regime. Kaveh Shahrooza lawyer and activist tweeted, “No reforms. No offers. No negotiations. Only revolution. Death to the Islamic Republic.”
Others went additional, calling for revenge towards the rulers as soon as there’s a regime change. One individual tweeted a picture resembling Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei hanging from the rope of a crane.
On Tuesday, a Kurdish political prisoner, Farhad Salimi, was additionally hanged at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj after fourteen years of imprisonment with out being allowed a final assembly along with his household.
The Islamic Republic has executed a minimum of 90 folks from December 21 to January 20 for varied causes.
A person holding a small banner on which he describes Ghobadlou’s execution as “Khamenei’s newest crime” protesting outdoors the bazaar of Tehran.
The US Special Envoy for Iran “strongly” condemned the Islamic Republic’s “unjust execution” of Ghobadlou and its “continued use of sham trials and the loss of life penalty towards those that participated within the Woman, Life, Freedom protests.” “We specific our condolences to Mohammad’s household. Mohammad Ghobadlou and all those that have died by the hands of Iran’s judiciary shall not be forgotten,” he stated.
Ghobadlou who had struggled with critical psychological well being points together with bipolar dysfunction for a number of years was accused of driving into a bunch of anti-riot police in Parand within the south of the capital Tehran in the course of the 2022 protests, leading to an officer’s loss of life.
Ghobadlou and his protection lawyer, Amir Raisian, who was not allowed to signify him in courtroom, constantly denied the costs, offering proof to show his innocence.
Ghobadlou was sentenced to loss of life for “waging struggle towards God” by Abolghasem Salavati, a infamous decide of revolutionary courts who has meted out quite a few loss of life sentences on dissidents and different residents together with these discovered responsible of monetary crimes.
Ghobadlou’s sentence was later annulled by the Supreme Court which ordered a department of Tehran Criminal Court to retry the case. His execution regardless of the Supreme Court’s choice was unprecedented.
Mizan, the information company of the judiciary, claimed after Ghobadlou’s execution that his loss of life sentence had been confirmed by the courtroom appointed by the Supreme Court. Raisian says no new ruling had been conveyed to Mohammad and his household and has challenged the judiciary to current proof of a brand new ruling.
“He was murdered by the Islamic regime in Iran though he was harmless. He was wrongly convicted in a present trial,” Clara Anne Bünger, a member of the German Parliament who had accepted Ghobadlou’s political sponsorship tweeted. She had earlier urged the worldwide neighborhood to place stress on Iran to cease the execution of dissidents and repression of the Iranian youth.
“These actions of the Islamic Republic are solely meant to suppress the progressive Woman, Life, Freedom motion,” she wrote.
In a tweet Tuesday, US-based activist Masih Alinejad urged European nations to expel an Islamic Republic diplomat, add 10 Revolutionary Guards officers to the EU sanctions listing, and put limitations on commerce with Iran for each prisoner executed.
“The West should ship a powerful message to the Islamic regime. This is the way you save lives. This is the way you assist democracy and the battle of individuals towards autocracy,” she wrote.