The Islamic Republic of Iran hanged 5 political prisoners on 9 May in Evin prison.
The regime governing Iran has once again demonstrated that it has no respect for human rights and human dignity and more than that no regards for the international community which have repeatedly denounced the increasing number of executions in Iran especially of the political prisoners. The Islamic regime which ranks top amongst the most corrupt, most brutal regimes has completely set aside the principles which are encoded in Islamic teachings of compassion and forgiveness let alone the principles accepted by most states of regards for human rights and human dignity and has accelerated killing innocent people whom it has detained and kept in detention under torture and inhumane conditions for years.
The Islamic republic has repeatedly accused political prisoners, especially those belonging to ethnic groups and religious minorities, of involvement in acts of terrorism which is totally untrue and they have denied the charges even under torture. These prisoners have been denied access to lawyers or have been tried without due process, or have been denied visits by their families and then executed in the early hours without the knowledge of their loved ones or lawyer
Once again, in the early morning of Sunday, 9 May 2010 Iranian regime hanged 5 prisoners in the Evin prison without their lawyers or their families being notified. Iranian Kurdistan is in mourning for the loss of its children as is the rest of Iran. One of the better known political prisoners was Farzad Kamangar. Farzad, a simple teacher, had simple aspirations for his young students. The region of Kurdistan has been treated by the rulers like a country under siege since the birth of the Islamic Republic.
Kurdistan has had large share of suppression, imprisonment and executions all through the years. The dignified people of Kurdistan understand that the Islamic regime has given them no share of Islamic compassion and humanity as registered in the teachings of Islam. Indeed, the whole of the country has experienced nothing but invasion, brutality, corruption since the Islamic regime took to power some 31 years ago. Even the nationals of other countries such as the Afghans who have taken refuge in the country are not immune from the wrath of the Islamic rulers. Some of them have recently been executed in Iran.
Today more than ever Iranian people need to reach out to the outside world for help to stop the madness created by a ruling elite who systematically drive the country into ruins and suppress the Iranian people especially ethnic minorities, religious minorities, women, students, journalists, intellectuals, workers and anyone who speaks against their interests.
International Coalition Against Violence in Iran (ICAVI) along with other groups and individuals sends its condolences to the families of Farzad Kamangar, Shirin Alam Houie, Fahad Vakili, Mehdi Eslamian and Ali Heidarian.
ICAVI is against all forms of violence and denounces in the strictest language the use of death penalty for any crime. ICAVI denounces today’s executions and calls on all the international and human rights bodies to get together and find solutions to the escalating violence and abuse of rights which has spread throughout Iran by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
International Coalition Against Violence in Iran (ICAVI)
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