05 oktober 2011 – The present report aims to show a picture – although inadequate — of the pervasive crimes committed against the oppressed people of Iran in the month of September and seeks help to restitute their trampled rights.
The Iranian regime announced the executions of 57 people in the ninth month of 2011. Four people were hanged in public including 17 year old Alireza Molla Soltani who says he panicked and stabbed Ruhollah Dadashi in self-defense after the athlete attacked him in the dark, according to local media reports.
Ruhollah Dadashi reportedly punched Alireza Molla-Soltani in the mouth and slammed him against the car while the two were arguing.
A group of independent United Nations human rights experts has condemned this execution and called once again for an immediate halt to Iran’s use of the death penalty.
‘We are outraged at the execution practice in Iran despite the international community’s and our repeated calls for a moratorium’, the experts on human rights in Iran, on summary executions, on the independence of the judiciary, and on torture said in a news release. The present report aims to show a picture – although inadequate — of the pervasive crimes committed against the oppressed people of Iran in the month of September and seeks help to restitute their trampled rights.
The Iranian regime announced the executions of 57 people in the ninth month of 2011. Four people were hanged in public including 17 year old Alireza Molla Soltani who says he panicked and stabbed Ruhollah Dadashi in self-defense after the athlete attacked him in the dark, according to local media reports.
Ruhollah Dadashi reportedly punched Alireza Molla-Soltani in the mouth and slammed him against the car while the two were arguing.
A group of independent United Nations human rights experts has condemned this execution and called once again for an immediate halt to Iran’s use of the death penalty.
‘We are outraged at the execution practice in Iran despite the international community’s and our repeated calls for a moratorium’, the experts on human rights in Iran, on summary executions, on the independence of the judiciary, and on torture said in a news release.
‘Any judgment imposing the death penalty upon juveniles below the age of 18, and their execution, are incompatible with Iran’s international obligations’, they stressed.
‘The execution of a 17-year old is deeply shocking, particularly when carried out in public, which brutalizes all those involved, including those who witness it’, said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa.
This is while the Fars state-run News Agency gloated over the ‘high numbers of spectators and the presence of women and children’ during the early morning execution of another man identified as ‘Sajad’.
In the continuing wave of secret mass executions, 66 prisoners were hanged in various Iranian jails. Over all, more than 123 people were hanged only in one month in Iran.
The Iranian regime arbitrarily killed 14 people this month. Most of them were Kurd border residents. It is notable that security forces open fire on Kurd residents after only suspecting them of carrying smuggled goods which has led to dozens of death during the past few months. This is while these border residents are forced to carry heavy goods on their backs to make a living and feed their families.
According to reports, 53 people were sentenced to death in September including a woman identified as Mahtab who is on death row in Tehran.
State-run media reported the flogging of a female political activist identified as Somayeh Tohidlu in Evin Prison. She is a Ph.D. student at Tehran University. Six others were flogged in various cities in Iran on charges of what the regime called ‘robbery’.
The facts above were some of the instances of human rights violations in the month of September. Of course, only a small percent of the thousands of human rights violations going on every day in Iran were mentioned in this report.
