Stop the executions in Iran!

After an execution – the brutality of the mollah regime has no limits. Foto: Fatemeh Behboudi, MEHR News Agency / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 4.0int

(KL) – Around the world, politicians, human rights activists, entire parliaments and organizations of Iranian exiles are protesting against the executions of political prisoners with which the theocratic Mollah regime is trying to hold on to power. Concrete protests are currently underway against the planned executions of seven political prisoners, which could be imminent.

Mehdi Hassani and Behrouz Ehsani have already been transferred to the dreaded Ghezel prison, which is known as an execution site. Five other political prisoners whose appeals were rejected are currently being held in the equally notorious Evin prison, from where they too are to be transferred to Ghezel prison, in all likelihood to be executed – Vahid Bani Amerian, Mohammad Taghavi Sangdehi, Babak Alipour, Pouya Ghobadi and Akbar (Shahrokh) Daneshvarkar.

The “crime” of these seven political prisoners is their membership in the MEK, the main opposition in Iran, which the mollahs want to silence. Nobody in Tehran is interested in the fact that the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Dr. Mai Sato, is protesting and demanding the release of these prisoners.

An NGO called “Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI)”, which works against the inhumane treatment of opponents of the regime in Iran, has published a declaration, which has so far been signed by well over 300 UN experts and human rights activists and which calls for an immediate end to these executions.

This demand is also in line with the 10-point plan of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), whose president-elect Maryam Rajavi is calling for the abolition of the death penalty and a transition to a modern, democratic Iran, among other things.

The international community must follow up its idealistic support for these democratic organizations with concrete steps. As long as the mollahs are in power, Iran must be politically and economically isolated and the democratic movements in Iran and in exile must be supported and strengthened. The majority of the Iranian population longs for a modern, democratic system, rejects nuclear weapons and wants Iran to become a stabilizing element in a region shaken by wars and crises. The time to act is now.