July 28, 2024
Immediately after the regime's recent election show and the success of the people's movement in confronting this show and boycotting it, the repression and killing machine of the Islamic Republic has been re-oiled and started a massive attack. Pakhshan Azizi, Kurdish civil activist and social worker was sentenced to death after the trial in Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court and her death sentence was announced on July 23. On August 4, 2023, Pakhshan was arrested in Tehran, subjected to interrogation and torture in Ward 209 of Evin prison, and in the winter of the same year, she was accused of "rebellion through membership in opposition groups" and "armed uprising against the Islamic regime". Pakhshan has announced in a letter that "I have been hanged many times by the interrogators". She has been tortured by the executioners of the regime for a long time. Before that, "Sharifa Mohammadi", a labor and civil activist imprisoned in Lakan prison, was tried on Thursday, July 4, 2024, in the first branch of Rasht Revolutionary Court on the charge of "revolt" and sentenced to death. Sharife Mohammadi has been in custody since December 5, 2023, and spent months in solitary confinement and was subjected to severe physical and mental torture and pressure to obtain forced confessions. She has also been denied the right to visit her family and make phone calls.
Simultaneously with the announcement of these sentences, executions in prisons have also increased. The death sentence of Kamran Sheikhe, a Sunni Kurdish political prisoner, has been executed in Urmia Central Prison after serving 15 years of imprisonment. Kamran Sheikhe along with Farhad Salimi, Davood Abdullahi, Ayoub Karimi, Anwar Khezri, Qasim Abste and Khosrow Basharat were arrested in February 2010. Based on his confessions under torture and without a fair trial, he was sentenced to death by Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court headed by Judge Mohammad Moqiseh in March 2016. In addition, in recent weeks, more than 20 people have been executed in regime prisons on charges such as drug trafficking and other crimes. Some others have been sent to solitary confinement to execute the death sentence. The prisoners of Evin women's prison have started a protest and sit-in protesting the death sentence of Pakhshan Azizi. Prisoners of other prisons have also protested against executions in solidarity with them. They have declared that resistance and protest against repression and executions do not differentiate between "ordinary and non-ordinary", "political and non-political" prisoners.
At the same time, the pressure of the regime's repression forces on civil activists has increased. Mohammad Habibi, a civil activist, a member of the board of directors of the Iran Teachers Union, was summoned by the second branch of the Shahriar Revolutionary Court and sentenced to six months and one day in prison. Sepideh Rashnou, Donya Qalibaf, Atefe Rangriz, Maryam Idrisi, Mozhgan Salmanzadeh, Metin Yazdani, Jaloh Javaheri, Azadeh Chavoshian, Negin Rezaei, Forough Samiania, Shiva Shahsiah and dozens of other civil activists have been summoned to execute the sentences. Syndicalists and labor activists including Reza Shahabi and Davood Razavi are still in prison.
These actions are taking place in the midst of the regime's election show and the preparation of the new cabinet, where some of the reformists and other supporters of the new president have filled the media with empty promises about the miracles of "Messoud Pezeshkian", but they are silent about all these repressions and executions. Contrary to these claims, the regime's criminal actions show a wide-ranging plan to deal with the force of boycotting the recent election show and to take revenge on the movement that has put fear in the hearts of the regime leaders and it’s main and declared goal is to overthrow the regime. A movement that made its presence more visible and alive by boycotting the election show of the regime and demonstrated its strong will to pursue its campaign goals once again.
The Left Party of Iran considers the issuing of death sentences and the intensification of repression by the regime as a sign of the Islamic Republic's fear of the emergence of the revolutionary movement "Women, Life, Freedom" and its desperation against this movement. Our party supports the widespread activity of civil activists in confronting the regime's repression policy and fighting for the abolition of death sentences and is fully involved with these efforts. We call all political and civil forces and human rights defenders to solidarity and joint effort to confront the lunatic actions of the regime. It is only with the solidarity and unity of different parts of the political and civil movement that it is possible to put an end to the life of the regime of repression and execution.
Political-Executive Board of the Left Party of Iran
July 28, 2024
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