In a barbaric move on Wednesday, February 5, the anti-human clerical regime secretly and collectively hanged 15 Balouchi political prisoners in Chahbahar prison. Khossrow Barahoui, a local from Loutak in Zabol, two brothers from Rigi tribe, two brothers from Mir tribe, and a merchant called Afzal Rigi were among those hanged.
According to the reports published, a day earlier, seven prisoners were secretly buried in unmarked graves in a desolate place at the Zahedan cemetery.
At dawn on February 6, two prisoners by the names of Parviz Ashna from Bandar Abbas and Farhad Soltani from Kermanshah were executed in the central prison of Bandar Abbas. The execution of a 29 year old in Zahedan prison on February 1 was yet another execution that was registered last week.
Therefore, the number of executions in the first five weeks of this year reaches 107.
The wave of executions in many cities particularly in deprived regions demonstrates the detested clerical regime’s fear of popular uprisings in the regions that are under intolerable pressures.
The Iranian Resistance calls on the UN Security Council, the United States, the European Union, and the human rights defenders throughout the world to take urgent action regarding the arbitrary and collective executions that have taken on an unprecedented scale this year. Continuation and expansion of economic and diplomatic relations with this regime, and ignoring these anti-human crimes, under whatever pretext, only encourages the continuation and intensification of group executions and thus must be stopped.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
February 8, 2014