'Medieval' Iran is still executing prisoners – including a man with a mental disability | 32926OK | 2024-01-31 11:08:01
A person with a mental disability is among the many 99 prisoners Iran has executed in only one month in 'a brand new report of savagery'.
Mohammad Ghobadlou, who worked in a barbershop, was arrested in 2023 as protests – ignited by the dying of Mahsa (Jina) Amini in police custody in Tehran – engulfed the country in September 2022.
The 23-year-old was convicted of homicide and 'corruption on earth' after allegedly operating over a police officer together with his automotive throughout a protest near the capital.
Human rights groups warned Mohammad confronted an unfair trial marred by torture allegations, and appeals to consider his mental health condition have been additionally rejected.
He was hanged in Ghezelhesar Jail in the city of Karaj on Tuesday morning, a couple of hours after his lawyer was alerted to his shopper's fate.
'We will probably be killed one after the other,' wrote Ashkan Khatibi, a well-liked Iranian actor who was detained three months in the past for expressing solidarity with protesters.
His submit on X included an image of Mohammad's father wrapped in a blanket in entrance of the prison, north of Tehran, the place his son was held.
The opposite victims of the Iranian regime
The Iranian regime also hanged Farhad Salimi, a Kurdish political prisoner who had been incarcerated for 14 years.
He was on a starvation strike on the time of his execution at Ghezelhesar, additionally on Tuesday.
The Hengaw Human Rights Group reported that attempts to allow Farhad's household a last visit have been thwarted.
They arrived at the jail solely to discover that his killing had already taken place.
Farhad is the fourth man since last November to be arbitrarily executed from a gaggle of seven Kurdish Sunni males sentenced to dying over a decade in the past, in an unfair trial that lasted just a few minutes and relied on torture-tainted 'confessions'.
There are mounting fears that Iranian authorities are intent on finishing up the executions of the three remaining men from the group –& Anwar Kherzi, Kamran Sheikheh& and& Khosrow Basharat.
'Medieval' bloodshed
Maryam Rajavi, president of political group National Council of Resistance of Iran, stated: 'The clerical regime has set a new document in savagery and crime by these executions.
'Undoubtedly, the courageous youth of Iran won't let this medieval regime's actions go unanswered.
'The countless situations of bloodshed reveal [Supreme Leader of Iran Ali] Khamenei's apprehension concerning the eruption of the Iranian individuals's fury, and his futile makes an attempt to quell uprisings.'
Echoing the voice of many Iranians, Maryam stated the 'martyrdom of these courageous younger men will only gasoline the flames of uprising and resistance.'
She appealed to the United Nations and the European Union to take speedy motion to halt the regime's 'killing machine' and save the lives of hundreds of prisoners on dying row.
'Waging conflict towards God'
Iranian authorities have intensified their use of the demise penalty as a software of repression within the aftermath of the 'Lady Life Freedom' movement that gained traction in the course of the Mahsa Amini case.
No less than 360 prisoners have been executed in the final three months, and Human Rights Watch warned a minimum of 11 individuals are at imminent danger, lots of them from minority communities.
The organisation stated they're typically convicted on obscure expenses, like moharebeh – 'waging warfare towards God' – and 'corruption on earth.'
Michael Page, deputy Center East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch, stated: 'Iranian authorities are notorious for wielding the demise penalty towards individuals after unfair trials to instill worry into a population that has mobilized nationwide protests calling for elementary reforms.'
'Iran's brutal government takes an especially harsh response to ethnic minority communities, together with the 11 individuals susceptible to imminent execution.'
Who was Masha Amini?
It began with the demise of Mahsa (Jina) Amini on September& 6, 2022, while in police custody.
The 22-year-old was arrested by the notorious& 'morality police' within the capital for sporting her hijab too loosely, with a number of strands of hair seen to passing crowds.&
The drive routinelydetain ladies who don't comply with the country's abusive and discriminatory veiling legal guidelines.& &
Eyewitnesses stated that police pushed her into a van and beat her, taking her to a detention centre in Tehran.
It was reported that officers had subjected Mahsa to torture, including beatings to her head.
She fell into a coma, and was transferred a hospital where she was pronounced lifeless three days later.&
Why have been there protests in Iran in 2022?
Mahsa's dying sparked the nationwide& 'Lady Life Freedom' uprising& towards the repression in ultra-conservative Iran.
Authorities responded by deploying reside ammunition, metallic pellets and tear fuel towards the crowds of largely peaceable protesters.& &
Tons of of protesters, including youngsters, have been killed, whereas a whole lot of others have been blinded because of the firing of metallic pellets.
Hundreds more sustaining different critical accidents by& illegal use of drive. Fearing arrest and other reprisals, many did not seek medical care.
The exact variety of protesters arrested and then executed stays unclear, however some say it is within the hundreds.
Are protests still occurring?
It's troublesome to report on the degrees of dissent inside Iran the place the regime is usingprotesters like Mohammad for instance construct worry among the society.
'Lady Life Freedom' demonstrations – on the size of people who engulfed the country in 2022 and part of 2023 – usually are not happening.
Amid the waning legitimacy of the federal government, rulers are afraid of extra protests ahead of the legislative elections on March 1.
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