Condemning the Rising Wave of Executions in Iran

MISSIONFREEIRAN ─ While governments and the international media work to focus the world’s attention on the Islamic regime of Iran’s charm offensive on the nuclear front, the regime is rapidly escalating the rate of executions of Iranian people, many of whom are political prisoners. In service of their own interests, governments and the international media have chosen to ignore these murderous crimes of the regime. However, activists around the world refuse to remain silent and are raising their voices to condemn the ongoing executions in Iran. Activists from a number of organizations in Washington DC, including Mission Free Iran, Unity for Democracy and Justice in Iran, and Hambastegi, gathered at 3pm on Tuesday 12 November 2013 at the offices of the Islamic regime to condemn the wave of executions, to demand a halt to the killing, and to demand the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners.

Condemning the Rising Wave of Executions in Iran

Attack on border officials prompts multiple executions

Sixteen prisoners on death row in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan were executed today in response to an attack carried out on Saravan border officials, judiciary officials announced.

Mohammad Marzieh, the prosecutor general of Zahedan, announced that the executions were in reaction to the attack carried out on Friday October 25 in the city of Saravan.

Fourteen border officers were killed and another seven were injured in the attack carried out in Saravan last night.

“These executions were in response to last night’s actions. We had announced earlier that such an attack would have its consequences, and this morning’s executions were one of our responses,” Marzieh said.

He went on to add that the executed people had been on death row and their delayed death sentences were carried out today.

He claimed the individuals were linked to “Jeysh-ol-adl, Ansar and other criminal groups.”

The intelligence ministry has announced that three border officers have been taken hostage by these groups and it has called on Pakistan to take serious steps toward “fighting terrorism in its border control.”

Attack on border officials prompts multiple executions