Iran, three other participants in the protests executed

Iran, three other participants in the protests executed

The last call to families was on Wednesday evening: “We are still alive” they said from the death row of Isfahan’s Dastgerd prison Majid Kazemi, Saleh Mirhashmi and Saeed Yaqoubi . Then, this morning, the announcement came from the Mizan news agency, the Iranian government agency: killed the three prisoners sentenced to death for the “Khane-ye Isfahan” case, which literally translates as the house of Isfahan.
The young protesters have been accused of “war against God” for their alleged involvement in the shooting of a policeman and two members of the Basij forces during demonstrations in Khane-ye neighborhood. It was November 16 and Iran was in the midst of protests against the Islamic Republic, which erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini. That day, according to the NGO Iran human rights, the boys were taken to prison, tortured, forced to make false confessions on television and tried in the usual farce trials and then sentenced to the highest penalty of all: death. After the execution of the sentence, the regime broadcast the three coerced confessions on state television. Amnesty International wrote: «Majid Kazemi said in an audiotape from prison that he was forced to make self-incriminating false statements after officers beat him, subjected him to electroshocks and mock executions and threatened to rape him, execute his brothers and molest his parents.’

On the night of May 17, Iranian young men and women and activists answered the call from the families of the three prisoners and gathered in front of the gates of Dastgerd prison to ask for revocation of the death sentence. The appeals of the NGOs have multiplied. It’s about to happen, they warned. Hundreds of messages in the form of posts were sent to the international community pleading for unity in calling for the sentence to be overturned.