EUROPA PRESS, Madrid, May 22, 2010 – The People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran (PMOI) on Friday called for immediate action by the international community to prevent the execution of six supporters of the opposition – among which includes the recognized political prisoner by Amnesty International Mohamad Ali Saremi -whose sentences were announced this past 15 days by the Attorney General of Iran.
’The international community now faces a crucial test,’ said the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (mainly political body represented by the PMOI), Maryam Rajavi, who called the rejection of ’Iran’s clerical dictatorship,’ to calling it a ’disgrace for humanity in the XXI century.’ ’Economic ties with the regime can only continue with the status of ending executions and improve the situation of human rights in the country,’ he said in a statement.
The PMOI is recognized as a terrorist organization by the United States, Canada, Iran and Iraq, but has recently been removed from the list that manages the European Union since the group does not advocate armed opposition to the Iranian Government does not participate in it, ’according to amnesty.
Along with Saremi, who has spent 23 years of his life in prison, were also sentenced Mohsen Moghadam Daneshpur and his son Ahmad, Abdulreza Ghanbari, Jafar Kazemi, Mohamad Ali Haj-Aghai. They maintained regular contact with their families in the refugee camp Ashraf (Iraq), where more than 3,500 Iranian dissidents, most of them members or supporters of the PMOI, exiled after getting up in arms against the clerical regime in Tehran for 80 years.
The six convicted were arrested after protests over presidential elections last June that gave the victory to a second term to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Weighs upon them the charge of ’mohareb’ or enmity against God.
In a letter sent last Tuesday from Gohardasht prison (20 km west of Tehran), Saremi scored his condemnation of ’unfair’ because it argues ’unfounded allegations’ and claimed that his lawyers have not received in person ’ official information ’of the specific charges for which he was sentenced. ’I have been sentenced to execution after a bad call ’review’ that has been done without my presence and without the signature of my lawyer,’ the opponent.