Friday , 29 March 2024

IOPHR statement on the Islamic Republic’s disturbing plans to take further innocent lives, through the issuance of more death sentences, including children as young as 15!

Shabtabnews – In a statement IOPHR while expressing its abhorrence of Mohsen Shekari’s illegal execution , stated that “such appalling executions are part of the ruling regime in Iran’s implementation of the hateful policy of ‘victory through forced terror’, which will only increase the determination of the Iranian people to overthrow this inhuman regime and will only accelerate its overthrow.”

The statement also warned about “the possibility of the execution of more innocent people by the ruling regime in Iran. As Dr. Hamid Qara Hassanlou a Gonabadi Sufi, who only provided medical aid, based on his professional oath, to some of the victims of the recent attacks by the government forces, is also facing the possibility of execution. Dr Qara Hassanlou was arrested and after being severely beaten and tortured, was taken to court in his hospital uniforms, and on his very first hearing, was charged with muharibeh (enmity against God) and was promptly sentenced to death. The IOPHR consider the issuance of the death sentence against Dr. Qara Hassanlou as another oppressive step of the Iranian regime to increase pressure on religious and ideological minorities.”

The statement also highlighted “worrying reports published by reliable sources about the possibility of execution of two children in Zahedan city, Iran. Mohammad Rakhshani Azad and Ali Rakhshani Azad are two 15- and 16-year-old teenagers from Sistan and Baluchistan province who were sentenced to death, without the presence of a lawyer in their trials in Zahedan, the capital of this province. These two teenagers have been sentenced to death under the charge of ‘enmity against God’, while according to Iranian laws, due to their young age, they do not even have the right to open a bank account for themselves. The death sentences for these two children, were issued behind closed doors and without the presence of their lawyers, and they were practically denied any opportunity to defend themselves, which is an obvious and recognized right in judicial trials around the world.”

The statement ended with drawing “the attention of all human rights groups, international forums and democratic governments to the dire situation of all detainees in Iran, especially those who have been charged and convicted for ‘enmity against God’, and asks them to use all available means  to pressure the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to prevent the issuance and execution of all death sentences.”

For full text of statement see below link:





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