The Iranian Resistance calls on international human rights bodies, especially the thirty-third session of the Human Rights Council to be held next month in Geneva, for an international inquiry on the brutal torture of Sunni political prisoners before their mass execution on August 2nd. The execution of political prisoners particularly after their brutal torture is a crime against humanity against which silence is absolutely unacceptable.

On August 1 these prisoners, while they were shackled, their mouth shut and bags pulled over their heads, were removed from the prison ward by the henchmen. Reports indicate that they subsequently were severely tortured in a way that, according to their families, signs of torture were quite apparent on their bodies. Their bodies were blue and black from the beatings, hands and feet of some of them were broken, and their bones had stuck out. The Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) has threatened families that they do not have the right to publish news or holding ceremony for their children.

The MOIS Sanandaj branch has also summoned and threatened a number of religious figures and protestors to the execution of the prisoners that they are not allowed to issue statements or to meet with their families.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
August 17, 2016