Another Mass Killing in Iran: an Affront to Human Dignity
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“Young people are often beaten, tortured and humiliated in public in order to intimidate the population and deter others from joining their ranks.”
ANOTHER MASS KILLING IN IRAN: AN AFFRONT TO HUMAN DIGNITY
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
alirezajafarzadeh-100By Alireza Jafarzadeh
Source: Fox News
With its usual unparalleled barbarity, the ayatollahs’ regime marked the 20th anniversary of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran with “the largest mass execution in years,” according to eyewitness accounts and reports by human rights groups. On Sunday, July 27, 2008, at dawn, 29 people were hanged in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, the site of thousands of executions as part of 30,000 political executions in Iran in a spate of a few months in summer of 1988.
Many of those executed on Sunday were dissidents arrested during last June’s fuel uprisings in Iran. Tehran often describes as “thugs” the restive youths arrested by the State Security Force (SSF) for staging antigovernment protests and demonstrations. Young people are often beaten, tortured and humiliated in public in order to intimidate the population and deter others from joining their ranks.
The European Union’s French presidency strongly condemned the 29 hangings, adding, “The Iranian regime’s action of staging these executions and making them the focus of media attention is an affront to human dignity.”
In recent weeks, news reports from Iran indicated that eight women and one man are waiting to be stoned to death. Their sentence defies the so-called moratorium on stoning announced in 2002 by the mullahs’ Chief Justice, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi. According to BBC World Service, at least “three people are reported to have been executed by stoning since then.” In July 2007, the regime stoned to death Jafar Kiani in the northern Iranian city of Takestan.