5 prisoners executed
Public Statement by a number of Iranian
human rights, civil rights and women’s rights activists In the early hours of Sunday five prisoners
including one woman were hanged in the Evin prison in Shirin Alam-Hooli (Ms) Farzad Kamangar Ali Heydarian Farhad Vakili Mehdi Eslamian Shirin appealed her sentence and denied
charges even under torture but was turned down. Farzad was a teacher who also
denied charges against him. His file was under review but the last time his
attorney was told it was ‘lost’. Non of the families nor the attorney or the prisoners
themselves were aware of their imminent execution, nor were they given the
opportunity to a final farewell. Among the countries that uphold the death
penalty, The execution of prisoners of conscience
has been carried out throughout the life of the Islamic Republic. Against
widespread demands by the international community At this moment our thoughts go with the
families of the recent victims and we express our abhorrence to their
executions and express our grave concern for those who are kept in the Iranian
prisons under torture, under false charges which can potentially carry the
death penalty. We condemn the state’s acts of violence
against human rights activists, women’s rights activists, journalists,
students, workers and civil rights activists and urge the international
community of human rights defenders, especially the United Nations to also condemn
recent executions and put pressure on Iran to facilitate the visit of Special
Rapporteurs to Iran to examine the prisons, talk to the families and
investigate the atrocities committed by the Islamic Republic. We urge the international community of
human rights to condemn the use of death penalty against political prisoners as
means to terrorise the nation and force them into silence.
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