2023-05-19 10:21:24
Despite appeals by the NGO, they were hanged in Ishfan after being convicted of alleged involvement in the deaths of a policeman and two members of the Basij forces
The last call to the families on Wednesday evening: We are still alive, said Majid Kazemi, Saleh Mirhashmi and Saeed Yaqoubi from the death row of Ishfan prison. Then, this morning, the announcement came from the Mizan news agency, the Iranian government agency: the three prisoners sentenced to death for the “Khane-ye Ishfan” case were killed.
The young protesters have been accused of “war against God” for their alleged involvement in the shooting of three government agents during demonstrations in the Khane-ye district of Ishafan. It was November 16 and Iran was in the midst of protests against the Islamic Republic, which erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini. The boys were taken to prison, tortured, tried in the regime’s usual show trials and then sentenced to the highest penalty of all: death.
For days, young Iranian men and women, with activists and the families of the three condemned men and women, have gathered in front of the gates of Ishfan prison to ask for the death sentence to be revoked. The appeals of the NGOs have multiplied. It’s about to happen, they warned. Hundreds of messages in the form of posts were sent to the international community with the desperate prayer that they would join in the request for the sentence to be overturned. But nothing worked, and the executioners acted.
Majid Kazemi, Saleh Mirhashmi and Saeed Yaqoubi become the fifth, sixth and seventh protesters since the protests began to be killed by capital punishment by Khamenei’s regime. The Islamic Republic hangs its young people as a reminder that it is forbidden in Iran to contradict and to repress any attempt at protest that risks becoming a revolution.
Since April 21, the Iranian dictatorship has sent at least 110 people unrelated to the protests to the gallows. Amnesty International’s data on the death penalty in 2022 shows that nearly 90 per cent of recorded executions globally – excluding China – took place in Iran and Saudi Arabia. Khameni’s country holds the bloody record with at least 576 recorded executions.
Iran has executed the death sentences of three men accused of serious violence during anti-government protests. Judiciary website Mizan announced the execution of Majid Kazemi, Saleh Mirhashemi and Saeed Yaghoubi. Authorities say the three killed a police officer and two members of the Basij paramilitary group in Isfahan in November. Rights groups say the three were subjected to torture, forced to confess on television and deprived of due process.
May 19, 2023 (change May 19, 2023 | 10:22 am)
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