Maryam Rajavi: The dossier of violation of human rights in Iran must be presented to the UN Security Council

Deceiving international community and justifying trade with and appeasement of clerical regime by fanning myth of regime’s temperance and moderation

Since the beginning of 2013 until October 10, the International Day against Death Penalty, 471 executions of prisoners by mullahs’ regime henchmen have been registered with 231, including execution of 10 women, carried out since the sham June 14 Presidential election. This is while information on many executions never leaks out of prisons. Some victims were youth of below 18 at the time of committing their alleged crimes. By decree of judicial henchmen, some of those executed received dozens of lashes hours prior to their executions.

In many cities, prisoners were hanged in public to create horror and terror. Some cities that were scene of public executions were Noshahr, Babol, Ghaemshahr, Tonekabon, Shiraz, Jahrom, Fassa, Ahwaz, Dehdasht, Hendijan, Shahr-e Kord, Ilam and Karaj. Many were mass executions in groups numbering 10 to 20 prisoners. State media widely publish horrifying pictures of these executions to generate further terror.
Shocking examples of publicly executing two prisoners of 20 and 23 for stealing less than 35 Euros, executing three youth who were 12, 15 and 17 years old at the time of their arrest, hanging a young man of 28 with a body injured and drenched in blood in Bandar Abbas prison who had committed suicide hours before his execution, and hanging a 23 year old prisoner who hours prior to execution had died of heart attack in Zahedan prison more than ever exposes the anti-human nature of the criminals who have spared Iranian people no atrocity and barbarism during their 35 years of reign.
Meanwhile, just in Ghezel Hessar prison, 3000 prisoners are on the death row. To facilitate group hangings, the clerical regime has put up stages in Ghezel Hessar prison for concurrent hanging of 24 and covertly hangs a number of prisoners every week.
Concurrent with arbitrary executions, medieval punishments such as hand amputations, blinding and cutting off the ear complements the cycle of atrocity and terror in mullahs’ regime. Six verdicts of hand amputation in Shiraz, four sentences of stoning, including that of two women in Tabriz, and a decree to gouge out the eye and cut off the ear of an imprisoned laborer in Tehran, is another example of the atrocity of henchmen ruling Iran.
Maryam Rajavi, while reiterating on the need to present the dossier of systematic and barbaric violation of human rights in Iran to the UN Security Council, said: The heightening trend of executions in Iran demonstrates that fanning and crowing temperance and moderation of the religious fascism ruling Iran has no aim but to deceive the international community or to justify trade with and appeasement of this medieval regime. She added: While through empty gestures in New York the regime is after removal of sanctions, through heightening of executions, conducting massacre in Ashraf by Maliki’s government in Iraq, ruthless slaughtering in Syria, increasing export of fundamentalism and terrorism, and expediting the nuclear weapons project, the clerical regime is attempting to avert outpouring of public rage and its certain downfall.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 10, 2013