09 October 2024 :
October 8, 2024 - IRAN. Iran’s regime has executed more than 250 people since Massoud Pezeshkian became president
As Iran’s regime continues to ramp up its executions, the “No to Executions on Tuesdays” campaign entered its 37th week on October 8, 2024, with inmates in 22 prisons across the country joining the campaign, coinciding with the upcoming World Day Against the Death Penalty.
The prisons participating in the 37th week of the “No to Executions on Tuesdays” campaign include Evin (women’s ward, wards 4 and 8), Ghezel Hesar (units 3 and 4), Central Karaj, Prison Greater Tehran Prison, Khorramabad Prison, Arak Prison, Asadabad Prison in Isfahan, Nezam Prison in Shiraz, Bam Prison, Mashhad Prison, Lakan Prison in Rasht, Qaemshahr Prison, Ardabil Prison, Tabriz Prison, Urmia Prison, Salmas Prison, Khoy Prison, Naqadeh Prison, Saqqez Prison, Baneh Prison, Marivan Prison, and Kamyaran Prison.
The prisoners participating in the campaign stated in their declaration: “In an attempt to prevent public protests, the regime executed 30 people in various prisons across the country on October 1 and 2, including three women. A death row prisoner named Mahmoud Dehmordeh died of a heart attack in Zabol prison due to lack of medical care.”
The statement also added: “Last week, a political prisoner named Hamid Hosseinnejad Heidaranloo was sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court of Urmia. He was arrested in April 2023 and sentenced to death on charges of ‘rebellion,’ and his life is in danger.”
The statement further noted: “On the eve of the ‘World Day Against the Death Penalty,’ we are witnessing the most severe violence by this medieval regime, which publicly executes prisoners and holds the highest execution rate in the world. Since the beginning of 1403 Persian Calendar year (March 2024), nearly 450 people have been executed.
“The ‘No to Executions on Tuesdays’ campaign calls on independent political, civil, and human rights organizations, both domestic and international, to support the campaign to save the lives of those sentenced to death in Iran. It also urges the global community to hold the leaders of this regime accountable for over four decades of crimes against humanity, including the massacre and execution of prisoners.”
The 37th week of the “No to Executions” campaign was held while the regime shows no signs of slowing down the use of death penalty.
The number of recorded executions since July when Massoud Pezeshkian took office as the regime’s president amounts to at least 255. Pezeshkian, who has been touted as a reformist by regime apologists and proponents of the appeasement policy toward Tehran, has proven that human rights condition will only worsen under his presidency.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said that as long as this regime is in power, neither torture and executions in Iran nor war and terror in the region will end, and the region will not see peace and tranquility. On the eve of the World Day Against the Death Penalty, she called on the international community to support the campaign against executions and to make diplomatic and trade relations with the regime conditional on stopping torture and executions. She said that the regime’s leaders should face justice for four decades of crimes against humanity and genocide.
