Iran: Five Christian citizens arrested in Firoozkooh/السلطات الإيرانية تعتقل 5 من المسيحيين/ Iran regime mass executes 30 prisoners in 3 days/النظام الإيراني يعدم 30 سجيناً خلال 3 أيام

Iran: Five Christian citizens arrested in Firoozkooh/السلطات الإيرانية تعتقل 5 من المسيحيين
Monday, 29 August 2016

NCRI – Friday 23 August 2016 five converted Christians who had gone for sightseeing and fishing with their families were detained by the agents of Intelligence Ministry. The whereabouts and condition of them is unknown. According to news sources from inside Iran, Ramil Bet Tamraz, Amin Naderafshar, Hadi Askari, M Dehnavi and Amirsina Dashti with their wifes and children went to the city of Boroujerd in the province of Tehran for fishing and picnics. Around half past one in the afternoon, they were attacked by security forces, men and women were separated and then Amin Nadrafshar who asked them to show the arrest warrant was severely beaten. A source close to the families stated: “The security forces detained and transferred men to an undisclosed location, and families are unaware of their condition.”Ramil Bet Tamraz, is the son of Victor Bet Tamraz the Assyrian priest who was arrested at his home on Christmas celebrations on 5 January 2014. Rev. Victor was verbally accused of “illegal missionary activities, running a Christian house church, and publishing and distributing the Bible”. He was released on bail on 10 March 2014. And is waiting a summons from the court to defend the charges related to his Christian activities.
It is feared that the intelligence agents coerce them to false confessions as is common in Iran prisons.

Iran regime mass executes 30 prisoners in 3 days/النظام الإيراني يعدم 30 سجيناً خلال 3 أيام
Monday, 29 August 2016/NCRI – The mullahs’ regime has stepped up a spate of mass executions in recent days, hanging at least 18 people last Thursday alone.
On Thursday, August 25, seven prisoners, including a woman, were executed en masse in the Central Prison of Yazd, central Iran.The state-run Rokna news agency claimed that five of the victims were accused of drugs-related charges. Separately on Thursday, the regime mass executed 11 prisoners in the Central Prison of Zahedan, south-east Iran. One of the victims was identified as Hamzeh Rigi. On Saturday, August 27, despite international calls for a halt to the executions, 12 prisoners were hanged in the Central Prison of Karaj. These prisoners had been transferred to solitary cells on August 24 to prepare them for implementation of the death sentence. Commenting on the recent spate of mass executions in Iran, on Monday Shahin Gobadi of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said: “As the regime plunges further into domestic and regional isolation, it resorts to more executions en masse and suppression, but the reality is the regime is at a total strategic impasse, and these barbaric measures only indicate its utter desperation.”The Iranian Resistance has called on all international human rights organizations to take urgent action to stop the brutal death penalty in Iran under the mullahs’ rule.