نقض سیستماتیک حقوق بشر، در درون و بیرون زندان ها و نبود آزادی و عدالت هم چنان در ایران بیداد می کند!

42 years ago, Rohullah Khomeini along with his criminal co-conspirators took power as a reactionary, undisputed government and, from the onset, brutally suppressed the people of Iran through arrests, torture, and execution of opposition groups and political activists. These methods of suppression and rule continue to this day. They justify their actions by claiming that they do according to decree from supreme leader. Until now, they have operated under the guise of being a republic and holding elections. They have forced people to accept their rule through deception of the most of oppressed layers, deprivation of society at large, as well as violent suppression. Until now all the power factions have participated in and benefited from this unjust, discriminatory, and corrupted structure.

Khomeini first ordered the execution of those he viewed as opposition on the roof of Refah school. He subsequently selected Khalkhali as a Sharia judge, sending him to Kurdistan, Turkman-Sahra and Khuzestan to suppress and kill political activists. Then followed brutal mass arrests in cities across Iran. Universities were closed in the name of the “cultural revolution;” dissident students and professors were purged through expulsions and killings. Imprisoned political prisoners were summarily executed throughout the 80s, culminating in the mass executions of some four thousand political prisoners in the summer of 1988. This prolonged period of brutality demoralized and crippled society’s will to fightback and brought civil society to a standstill. But this standstill did not last for long, with political and civil activists once again raising issues and concerns about all sorts of problems plaguing society. In January of 2018 and October of 2019, the Iranian people demonstrated against all factions in power – from the reformists to the hardliners - and announced loudly and clearly that hey did not want this government anymore.

After Khomeini, Ali Khamenei, and Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani along with their accomplices continued this unjust method of governing through the decrees of the supreme leader. Their authoritarianism and shamelessness are so blatant that Khamenei, in 21 century, dares to issue a decree to deny people access healthcare. in 42 years, not a single day has gone by without the suppression, arrest, torture, and execution of dissidents.

Ibrahim Raeisi is the head of Iran’s judiciary and was one of the three main members of 1988 prison massacre’s “Death committee.” He had a critical roll in carrying out the decree from Rohullah Khomeini and stands as one of the main accused for this crime against humanity as per international. He has said in the supreme judicial council that “we are ready to open the doors of our prisons to anyone that wants to visit and inspect them, on the condition that we be allowed to visit and inspect any prisons in their countries as well.” He claims that during the Corona pandemic, the Islamic republic of Iran cares more about its prisoner’s well-being than any other country in the world. His proof: claiming that “more than 120,000 prisoners have been given leave of absence during pandemic”.

We claim that, even if this criminal (who has had a central role in all the regime’s crimes over the last 42 years) is telling the truth, which is impossible, the number he mentions indicates that systematic human rights abuse in Iran is rampant and that the number of political and non-political prisoners are much higher. This is a tragedy.

A simple glance at the human rights reports from the past week, month, or year in Iran, clearly show the depth of the brutal suppression taking place in Iran. Some of these reports from the past twelve days are attached to the end of this letter.

Today, when people are economically, politically, sociologically, and even culturally overwhelmed and systematic human rights abuse in Iran still runs rampant, Ibrahim Raeisi talks shamelessly about “Islamic Kindness,” which functions as a cover for the brutality of these criminals. This “Islamic Kindness” is about 42 years of the most violent suppression of opposition groups and protesters through every means of humiliation, discrimination, deprivation, and injustice imaginable: stoning, qesas, throwing acid , honor killings, compulsory hijab, self- flagellation, slaughter, torture, lashings, executions, assassinations, firing on protesters in the streets, shooting down civilian airliners, arbitrary detention, forced confessions, censorship, dismissals, blackballing, unjust and secret courts, poverty, corruption, and massive class disparities. This “Islamic kindness” has done nothing but crush the people of Iran and enrich this gang of criminals and thugs.

The current situation of Behnam Mahjobi and two prisoners, Ms. Zeinab Jalalian and Mr. Saeid Masouri clearly illustrates the shamelessness, deception, and cruelty of these government officials. The three suffered the most severe tortures and two of them have been sentenced to life in prison. They have spent 13 and 20 years respectively without a single day of leave.

Behnam Mahjobi, born 1987 is a protester from Daravish Gonabadi. Three years ago, he was violently arrested after a gathering of this group but was soon released on collateral bail. An unjust court sentenced him to two years in prison; he was once again arrested and imprisoned in June of 2020. In September of 2020, Behnam was relocated to a psychiatric hospital in Amin Abad for panic attacks. on the night of February 13, 2021, he became sick and was taken to the infirmary. With no doctors present, he was given extra medication and fell into a coma. He was then taken to hospital where his family found out that he could no longer breathe without a machine. News of his death spread through social media, but a representative reported him to be alive although just barely showing signs of life. The mother, spouse, and sister of Behnam were outside of the hospital, suffering and pleading every day to know the fate of their beloved. This situation has gained the attention and support of vocal Mothers and families, human rights activists, and former political prisoners. In a recorded audio message from Amin Abad, Behnam said that “they tied me to bed like a cross. They injected me and gave me pills. They urinated on me and did other things that I am too ashamed to mention. They told me that I must take a bath, but they stripped us and ridiculed us. I saw the fall of humanity at Amin Abad.”

Saleheh Hoseini, his wife, told Radio Farda that “his body is very swollen, and he has a fever temperature. Three or four machines are attached to him and he cannot breathe without them. When I squeezed his leg, he showed no reaction and had no sense of the touch.”

On February 21st, 2021 we received news that he passed away. In actuality, they killed him and his family many times over through endless torture.

To prevent people’s anger and clamor in Tehran, the authorities quickly transferred his body to Kerman by plane. They severely threatened and harassed his family in Tehran and Kerman and demanded a quiet and subdued burial. Behnam’s mother asked for an autopsy before burial to help determine the cause of his death, but the security forces threatened that any further insistence from her would result in them burying her son in an unmarked grave. This is another routine form of torture that has been carried out against the families of political prisoners for 42 years. The body of Behnam was buried today and we take some solace that his family was escorted on their journey from the hospital in Tehran to Kerman by a busload of friends and supporters of Daravish Gonabadi.

This is the “Islamic kindness” that Raeisi and his criminal companions talk about. Any noble and honest person, even far from Iran, would easily identify the fascist nature of the Islamic regime of Iran and all the criminals at its helm.

We, Mothers of Park Laleh Iran, as a voice of justice seeking movement of Iranians, strongly condemn this circle of suppression, discrimination, injustice, detention, torture, murder, annihilation, and complete lack of responsibility or accountability.

We demand:

1-Abolition of the death penalty, assassinations, torture, shooting of prisoners, qesas, stoning, lashing.

2- Unconditional freedom for all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience.

3-Trial and punishment in just, open, and public courts for all those who gave and carried out the orders of all the killings that have occurred in Iran from the very beginning till the present.

Also, because we acknowledge that the main reason for these injustice and inequality is rooted in the unjust and discriminatory structure of Islamic regime of Iran and its anti freedom laws, we fight for:

4-freedom of speech and thought.

5-the right to assemble, strike, and organize.

6-Abolition of all discrimination.

7-Separation between religion from state