Imperative for impartial international investigation and handing of perpetrators to justice

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, offered her condolences to the families of victims of the heart-breaking incident where at least 11 defenseless prisoners lost their lives in an extensive fire in Shahr-e Kord Prison and she wished a speedy recovery for the injured. This catastrophe caused by suppressive forces who obstructed attempts to put out the fire is a great anti-human crime by the religious fascism ruling Iran whose perpetrators should be brought to justice, Mrs. Rajavi said.
Maryam Rajavi urged international organs and human rights bodies to condemn the intentional burning of the prisoners and called for dispatch of a fact-finding mission to investigate the catastrophic condition of prisoners in the religious fascism ruling Iran. Rajavi said: “This unprecedented atrocity is but an example of the catastrophes that the murderers ruling Iran have imposed on prisoners for many years. The barbarians ruling Iran should be banished from the family of nations and their leaders should face justice for their record fraught with atrocities.
Monday afternoon, August 4, following several days of strike by a number of prisoners in Shahr-e Kord Prison in protest to the anti-human conditions in this prison, the head henchman of the prison resorted to punishing a number of prisoners in order to terrorize them. The other prisoners, in solidarity with their cellmates who were on strike, put fire to a few mattresses. However, instead of putting out the fire, the head warden ordered the prison doors to be locked and prevented help from getting to the prisoners. The wardens even prevented the work of firefighters who wanted to knock down a wall to save the prisoners. While the wardens themselves left the place, they intentionally left the prisoners to be engulfed by the flames.
At night time, regime’s intelligence officials in this province issued secret orders to the mayor and the General Director of the firefighting organization in this city to prevent any reports on this atrocity from getting out.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
August 6, 2014