Iran’s Execution Machine Is Running at Full Speed

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  By Struan Stevenson As diplomats debate ceasefires, nuclear agreements and regional security, another crisis is unfolding inside Iran with alarming speed. While global attention remains fixed on war and negotiations, the clerical regime has launched one of its most extensive campaigns of political executions and repression in recent memory. Young protesters, political activists, students and opposition supporters are being sent to the gallows while much of the democratic world remains distracted. The surge in executions should be a matter of grave concern for every civilized nation. Instead, silence prevails as governments hold their breath, waiting for the latest twist in Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again peace initiative and hopes of an end to conflict involving Iran. Meanwhile, Tehran’s rulers are using the cover of international distraction to intensify their campaign of terror against their own people. Between March and early June alone, at least 32 political prisoners were...

Call for Urgent Action To save political prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi from execution


The henchmen of the Iranian regime have transferred 24-year-old political prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi to the prison quarantine in Sanandaj for execution. He was arrested by the Revolutionary Guards in July last year and was sentenced to death in the regime's courts on charges of "acting against national security and membership in Komala (an Iranian Kurdish organization)." Despite international efforts to stop this criminal punishment, Iran’s Supreme Court upheld his death sentence. Ramin's brother has been sentenced to eight and a half years imprisonment.
Iranian Resistance calls on all the people, especially the Kurdish youth, to protest against the death sentence of Ramin Hossein Panahi, and calls on all international human rights institutions, especially the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the  Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, to take action to save his life.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 1, 2018

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