Disabled man hanged in western Iran prison
National Council Of Resistance Of Iran (NCRI)Sunday, 03 January 2016 /NCRI – Iran’s fundamentalist regime on Saturday hanged a disabled man in a prison in Khoramabad, western Iran. The executed prisoner was identified as Mehdi Ranjkesh. He had spent the past five years behind bars. Ranjkesh, who was accused of a drugs-related charge, was both physically and mentally disabled and was denied proper medical treatment while in prison. The human rights situation has been deteriorating rapidly in Iran. More than 2,000 individuals have been executed during Hassan Rouhani’s tenure as President of the regime. This is the highest rate of executions in the past 25 years, and it reflects an increase over figures that had already secured Iran’s place as the nation with the most executions per capita. On December 17, 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution strongly condemning the brutal and systematic violation of human rights in Iran, in particular the mass and arbitrary executions, increasing violence and discrimination against women and ethnic and religious minorities. Following the adoption of the 62nd UN resolution censuring human rights abuses in Iran, the Iranian Resistance’s President-elect Maryam Rajavi called on the UN Security Council to hold the leaders of the clerical regime accountable and prosecute them for crimes against humanity. She underlined that this is a necessary step towards respecting the international community’s vote that condemned the systematic and flagrant violations of human rights in Iran.
10 prisoners at imminent risk of execution in Iran
National Council Of Resistance Of Iran (NCRI)/Sunday, 03 January 2016 /NCRI – Ten death-row prisoners were on Sunday transferred to solitary confinement in the notorious Gohardasht (Rajai-Shahr) Prison in Karaj, north-west of the Iranian capital Tehran, in preparation for their imminent execution.
Iran’s fundamentalist regime has upheld the execution sentence for all 10 of the prisoners. Among the prisoners at imminent risk of execution is Farajollah Hatami who has been imprisoned for the past 12 years. The other prisoners are yet to be identified by name, but they were transferred to solitary confinement from wards 3, 4 and 6 of Gohardasht Prison. The human rights situation has been deteriorating rapidly in Iran. More than 2,000 individuals have been executed during Hassan Rouhani’s tenure as President of the regime. This is the highest rate of executions in the past 25 years, and it reflects an increase over figures that had already secured Iran’s place as the nation with the most executions per capita. On December 17, 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution strongly condemning the brutal and systematic violation of human rights in Iran, in particular the mass and arbitrary executions, increasing violence and discrimination against women and ethnic and religious minorities. Following the adoption of the 62nd UN resolution censuring human rights abuses in Iran, the Iranian Resistance’s President-elect Maryam Rajavi called on the UN Security Council to hold the leaders of the clerical regime accountable and prosecute them for crimes against humanity. She underlined that this is a necessary step towards respecting the international community’s vote that condemned the systematic and flagrant violations of human rights in Iran.
Bahrain slams hypocritical comments by Iran regime
National Council Of Resistance Of Iran (NCRI)/Sunday, 03 January 2016 /Bahrain’s foreign minister on Saturday condemned a statement by the Iranian regime’s foreign ministry spokesman as an unwelcome interference in the kingdom’s domestic affairs. On Friday, Hussain Jaber Ansari claimed that “security actions in Bahrain were an unsuccessful approach.” However, Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmad Al Khalifa slammed the remark, according to Gulf News. “Does Hussain Jaber Ansari know that we are concerned about the security approach adopted by Iran towards the legitimate demands of the Iranian people?” Some people are good at projecting their own predicaments onto others,” the minister posted on his Twitter account. In another tweet to his 253,000 followers on the microblog, Shaikh Khalid said that “Bahrain has been targeted since 2011 by Iran and its agents in the region in an unfair campaign of lies and deception.”Relations between Bahrain and Iran’s regime have been deteriorating since 2011 after Manama accused Tehran of blatant interference in its domestic affairs. In October, Bahrain presented a formal complaint against Iran’s regime to the United Nations Secretary General for its “blatant violations and its continued unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of the Kingdom.”
The complaint was presented by Shaikh Khalid during a meeting with Ban Ki-moon, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Iran’s regime has chosen the path of escalation in an attempt to exert control over its neighbors by continuing to interfere in their internal affairs, the exploitation of extremist groups, the provision of safe haven to fugitives, the opening of training camps for terrorist groups, and the smuggling arms and explosives, Shaikh Khalid said. Hostile activities have resulted in citizens, expatriates and security personnel becoming the targets of murder and criminal acts that have so far claimed 16 lives from security personnel and injured 3,000, the ministry said. The ministry accused Iran’s regime of “continued interference in the affairs of Bahrain without any legal deterrent or moral limits, unlawful attempts and practices to create sectarian strife and to impose its hegemony and control over the entire region through reprehensible tools and means that are not limited to offending statements from senior officials, but also include supporting subversion, terrorism and incitement to violence through misleading media campaigns.”Iran’s regime also assisted terror groups in the smuggling of weapons and explosives, trained their members, and harbored fugitives from justice, the ministry said. It also accused Tehran of “repeated and blatant violation of all norms, laws and international conventions and principles of good neighbourliness and mutual respect, as well as of unacceptable infringement on the independence and sovereignty of Bahrain.” In July, Bahrain’s Interior Minister Shaikh Rashid Bin Abdullah Al Khalifa said that “the multifaceted Iranian interference in the internal affairs of Bahrain was totally unacceptable and did not conform to international norms that respect the values of good neighbourliness.”The interference included antagonistic political statements, the smuggling of explosives, weapons and ammunitions into the kingdom, the harboring of fugitives and the use of Iranian military camps to train Bahrainis on terrorist acts that target innocent people, he said. It also included orchestrating and launching constant and misleading propaganda campaigns against the Kingdom of Bahrain and its people to disseminate misinformation and false narratives about the kingdom, Shaikh Rashid added. http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/terrorism-fundamentalism/19743-bahrain-slams-hypocritical-comments-by-iran-regime
