Posted on 06/30/2009 10:24:23 AM PDT by dervish
PRESS RELEASE
IHRDC Calls on the World to Prevent Iran from Executing Prisoners Arrested in Connection with the June 12 Presidential Election
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 29, 2009
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT – Today, ILNA, an official Iranian news outlet, announced the creation of a special commission to “determine the fate of recent arrestees.” If history is any barometer, the creation of this commission and the men appointed to it, are ominous signs that the regime intends to severely punish, and execute, demonstrators and other human rights activists. The world cannot stand by and watch.
Ayatollah Shahroudi, the Head of the Judiciary who is appointed by the Supreme Leader, directed that members of the commission will include Hojatoleslam Dorri Najafabadi (Iran’s General Prosecutor), Ibrahim Ra’isi (Deputy Judiciary Chief), and Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi (Head of the General Inspection Organization). He also directed the commission to coordinate its activities with the Prosecutor of Tehran, Saeed Mortazavi.
This announcement followed closely on the heels of Friday’s sermon by senior cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami in which he stated that demonstrators are muharib, a status that makes them subject to the most severe punishment, including execution. The sermon and creation of the commission follow a familiar deadly pattern, particularly given the men involved.
Mortazavi has been implicated in the death of photo-journalist Zahrah Kazemi, and the arrests and torture of other journalists and bloggers. Two of the named commissioners, Pour-Mohammadi and Ra’isi, were members of special commissions that were created in July 1988 on the orders of the then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Those commissions, known as Death Commissions, sent thousands of already sentenced political prisoners throughout Iran to their deaths based solely on their responses to a few questions. The Iranian government secretly executed the prisoners and has never acknowledged that they took place. To this day, the exact numbers and identities of those executed remain unknown.
In a pattern eerily similar to today, as the executions were beginning in 1988, the then-Chief Justice Musavi Ardebili delivered a sermon claiming that “[t]he people say they should all be executed without exceptions.”
Given this history involving many of the same powerful men, the creation of special commissions coupled with a call for executions, are clear signs that Iran intends to severely punish, and execute, demonstrators and other human rights activists. The IHRDC calls on the United Nations to prevent this from happening.
IHRDC is a nonprofit organization based in New Haven, Connecticut that was founded in 2004 by a group of human rights scholars, activists, and historians. Its staff of human rights lawyers and researchers produce comprehensive and detailed reports on the human rights situation in Iran since the 1979 revolution. The Center’s goal is to encourage an informed dialogue among scholars and the general public in both Iran and abroad. The human rights reports and an archive of documents are available to the public for research and educational purposes on the Center’s website www.iranhrdc.org.
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Good organization
When you look at who our president supports in the world, it should make everyone concerned about our own future.
Only one way the World will stop Iran. Put them back into the 7th Century.
better than nothing but it’s way beyond their ability to stop what the Mullahs are doing. Alan will be putting up an article in an hour or so on AntiMullah.com which will HORRIFY any thoughtful person as to the lengths the Khamenei regime plans to go at the cost of HUGE across the board fatalities to the the populace.
Oops.
Don’t start a fight with someone who is bigger and meaner than you if you don’t have a plan to finish it.
In a practical sense we have NO WAY to prevent the Ayatollah from executing every single person they arrested.
Given that B. Hussein has for all intents and purposes taken use of military force off the table the Iranians must suffer and die as their masters order.
Thanks libtards!
The only important lesson is that sometimes being right isn’t enough. In which case you really want a good rifle, at least, as insurance.
Thus, the many ‘bitter clingers’ among the American patriotic right-wing, of which I am proud to number myself.
The Iranians needed a little more “from my cold dead hands” and a little less “give peace a chance”.
It is going to take a Civil War to rid them of their fanatic autocrats. (Hopefully, they get to it soon.)
Iran’s Prosecutor has announced trails for 7 Bahai’s on July 11 accused of spying for Isreal.
That “give peace a chance” idea is great but it doesn’t work. People either take it or loose it. I feel for the average person in Iran. They sound like good people but they, as you said, will have to put everything on the line and take their own peace. Waiting and talking won’t do it.....just as it won’t here.
Religion is the root of all evil!
ping
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