Iran: Public hanging of 3 political prisoners

                    
                ‘Moderate’ Rouhani increasing use of public executions across Iran 

The anti-human clerical regime in Iran hanged three Sunni Baluchi young political prisoners on Saturday, April 26, in the city of Zabol (Sistan & Baluchistan Province). Ali Dahmardeh, 20, Eman Galwi, 20, and Omid Peeri, 23, were condemned to death in mullahs’ sham courts without any fair judicial process on the charge of assassinating Zabol’s atrocious Public Prosecutor and the verdict was approved within days by the mullahs’ Supreme Court.
During the five months of detention of these three prisoners in Zahedan’s Intelligence Department, they faced the most severe tortures for extracting forced confessions from them. The signs of torture were evident on their bodies and they were unable to walk, lie down or sit.
Additionally, on April 24 and 26, two prisoners by the names of Mojtaba Nouri and Ali Doniyadideh in Zahedan’s central prison and another prisoner hanged in public in the city of Semnan were executed.
In another cruel act on April 27, regime’s henchmen flogged a young man in public in the city of Birjand (South Khorassan Province, eastern Iran). A suppressive security forces official said in this regard: “The police confront those who disrupt public order or security without any forgiveness and will show no mercy in this regard.”
In a situation where the raid by the suppressive forces on the political prisoners has raised public abhorrence; where the inflation, poverty and high prices have people under enormous pressure; and at a time that the empty promises of Mullah Rouhani have been disclosed more than ever, the clerical regime has found the only way to thwart expansion of protests, especially in the deprived regions, in the escalation of suppression and executions, particularly in front of the public’s eyes.
The silence and inaction on part of the international community regarding the criminal executions in Iran that have topped 700 during the Rouhani’s era have emboldened the religious dictatorship ruling Iran in continuing and intensifying its executions, massacres and its systematic and brutal violation of human rights.