30 November 2023 :
November 25, 2023 - Two men Executed in Rasht on November 25
Political prisoner Geda Ali Saber Motlagh (Ali Saber Motlaq) and Mohsen Sedaghat
According to the IHRS, on the morning of Saturday, November 25, 2023, two prisoners were executed in Lakan Prison in Rasht. One of them was political prisoner GedaAli SaberMotlagh, and a prisoner accused of murder named Mohsen Sedaghat.
According to reports from a source close to the families of prisoners in Lakan Prison of Rasht, Ali Saber Motlagh was a political prisoner in the 1980s who had been detained on charges of supporting the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). He had been released after several years, but he was arrested again in 2020 charged with being involved in the killing of an Iranian regime security official in 1981. Mr. Saber Motlagh had consistently denied this allegation.
According to reports received by Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM), Ali Saber Motlagh was subsequently subjected to prolonged torture and interrogation by intelligence agents, and ultimately sentenced to death. In February 2021, in protest against his arbitrary arrest by security forces, Mr. Saber Motlagh went on a hunger strike that lasted for over a month. His physical condition deteriorated severely considering his pre-existing liver and kidney conditions. Nevertheless, his interrogators did not let up putting pressure on him.
The regime’s judiciary accused him of having punished a senior regime official in Rasht in 1981, an accusation that Ali never accepted. Ali Saber, 62, went on a hunger strike for a month in March 2021. He was suffering from severe kidney and liver disease.
The Iranian Resistance calls on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Human Rights Council, the International Fact-Finding Commission, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, as well as Amnesty International and other human rights organizations to investigate the news of the execution and how Ali Saber was martyred and the place of his burial. It also calls for urgent action to stop the regime of the mullahs’ killing machine and to save the lives of prisoners, especially political prisoners. Silence and inaction in the face of the world’s leading executioner, torturer, terrorist, and warmonger, encourages this regime to continue and intensify its crimes against humanity.
https://en.iranhrs.org/lakan-prison-in-rasht-one-political-prisoner-executed/
https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/ncri-statements/statement-iran-resistance/criminal-and-secret-execution-of-ali-saber-political-prisoner-and-supporter-of-the-mek-in-lakan-prison-rasht/
https://iran-hrm.com/2023/11/27/secret-execution-of-political-prisoner-ali-saber-motlagh-in-lakan-prison-rasht/
