Iran executed nine protesters in seven days this week, including a teen who was hanged after being ‘tortured’ into confession, his lawyer said.
Mohammad Amin Biglari, 19, and Shahin Vahedparast Kolor, 30, were hanged on Sunday after being convicted of attacking a military base during protests in January, in line with Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO).
The boys were amongst no less than nine political prisoners executed in Iran for the reason that end of March including six members of the dissident People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (MEK).
4 more people being tried in the identical case are still on death row within the country and are said to be facing imminent execution.
Biglari’s lawyer said he was denied access to the person and that the confession used to convict him was ‘highly questionable’ for a 19-year-old who had grown up without parental support.
Forced confessions, which were broadcast on Iranian state media ten days after the defendants’ arrest, called them ‘deceived youth’ led by ‘American-Zionist terrorist elements.’
The hangings happened at Ghezel Hesar prison, a notorious and sprawling jail sanctioned by Western countries for torture.
IHRNGO, which monitors executions in Iran, said the killings were a part of a deliberate plan by the regime to bury dissent under the duvet of its current war.
Its director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said the regime’s biggest threat was not foreign military attacks but ‘the Iranian people demanding fundamental change.’
‘Their sentence was based on torture-tainted confessions they usually were tried in grossly unfair proceedings.
‘Prior to now seven days alone, no less than nine political prisoners, including six MEK members and three protesters, have been executed.
‘These day by day executions, carried out under the shadow of war, are a part of a deliberate policy to terrorise the Iranian people and forestall latest protests.
‘The Islamic Republic’s fundamental threat is just not foreign bombs, it’s the Iranian people demanding fundamental change.’
Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, told Metro: ‘Fearing an organised internal opposition and a brand new rebellion, the Iranian regime is attempting to crush the movement before it grows further.
‘4 a long time of concessions by the West have did not curb the regime’s nuclear ambitions, missile programmes, or regional terrorism. As a substitute, this inaction has given the regime the impunity to massacre political prisoners.’
Amnesty International warned in February that children and young adults made up the majority of those arrested after the January protests and called the Iranian court system a ‘conveyor belt for executions’.
The rights group said defendants were often denied access to lawyers, tortured and held in isolation to extract forced confessions.
Iran war general’s niece living lifetime of luxury in LA
The executions got here because the grand-niece of the Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani was pictured living a glamorous lifestyle in Los Angeles.
Sarinasadat Hosseiny, 25, and her mother, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar were arrested after their US everlasting resident status was revoked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio over ties to the Iranian regime.
Hosseiny had been living within the US since 2015, when she first entered the country on a student visa, before getting everlasting residency through the Biden administration in 2023.
Despite her family’s ties to the Iranian regime, Hosseiny’s social media presence showed a life at odds with it.
Posts showed her travelling across the US, visiting Miami, Las Vegas and Alaska, in addition to laughing and smiling at music festivals.
Other images showed her aboard private aircraft and yachts and wearing clothes that might be forbidden under Iranian law, including bikinis and miniskirts.
Her mother had called America the ‘Great Devil’ in social media posts as she lived in California, in addition to espousing support for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a chosen terror organisation, in line with the State Department.
Each women’s green cards were revoked hours before ICE arrested them in LA on Friday.
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