{"id":4132,"date":"2025-10-08T06:15:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codir.net\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:15:21","slug":"join-us-in-the-call-for-an-end-to-all-executions-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codir.net\/?p=4132","title":{"rendered":"Join us in the call for an end to ALL executions in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>CODIR unequivocally condemns the theocratic dictatorship in Iran for the savage executions of at least 118 people since 20 September.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Through its executing of seven political prisoners in Ahvaz and Ghezel Hesar on Saturday 4 October, the Islamic Republic regime attempted to spread dread and fear among its domestic political opponents and an increasingly restive population.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It has been reliably estimated that since at least 1,100 prisoners (not all political) have been executed by the authorities in Iran since 1 January 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The current wave of executions is believed to be the biggest since the Islamic Republic&#8217;s massacring of thousands of political prisoners in the &#8220;National Catastrophe&#8221; of summer 1988.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mizan News Agency, the state-run media outlet of the Islamic Republic&#8217;s ministry of the judiciary, has announced that in the early hours of Saturday 4 October 2025, seven political prisoners were executed at Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz and Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj.&nbsp; Ali Mojaddam, Moein Khanfari, Seyyed Salem Mousavi, Mohammad Reza Moghaddam, Adnan Alboshokeh (Ghabishavi), and Habib Deris were executed at Sepidar Prison, while Saman Mohammadi Khiyareh was executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first six men were members of Iran&#8217;s Arab minority community in the southern province of Khuzestan and had been detained, interrogated (and reportedly tortured), and charged on dubious grounds, having been denied any semblance of due process according to internationally recognised legal norms. &nbsp;The six were condemned to death on charges of involvement in armed insurrection against the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Mohammadi Khiyareh, a member of Iran&#8217;s Kurdish minority, was also executed on charges of involvement in armed insurrection against the state but had been arrested in 2009 and held in prison ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Iran Human Rights Society, Ali Mojaddam, son of Saleh, born in 1983, hailed from from the Kut Seyyed Saleh area of Ahvaz, and was married with three children. &nbsp;Mr. Mojaddam was arrested by Islamic Republic Ministry of Intelligence agents on 9 February 2019. &nbsp;In June 2019, after 63 days in solitary confinement detention in the custody of the Ministry of Intelligence, he was transferred to Ward 8 of Sheiban Prison in Ahvaz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Mojaddam was tried as the main defendant in this case, facing charges such as &#8220;participation in armed struggle, acting against national security, and forming a group hostile to the regime&#8221; before the Revolutionary Court. &nbsp;On 25 Bahman 1401 (14 February 2023), Mr. Mojaddam was sentenced along with the five following political prisoners to death by Branch 4 of the Ahvaz Revolutionary Court on the charge of &#8220;moharebeh&#8221; (&#8220;waging war against God&#8221;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moein Khanfari was 30 years old, also from the Kut Seyyed Saleh area of Ahvaz, and was arrested in February 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohammad Reza Moghaddam was born in 1992 in Shadegan in Khuzestan Province. He was also arrested in February 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seyyed Adnan Mousavi Ghabishavi, born in 1996, also from Shadegan, was similarly arrested in February 2019. &nbsp;He was the youngest member of the group of six sentenced to death by Branch 4 of the Ahvaz Revolutionary Court on 14 February 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salem Mousavi and Habib Deris, regarding whom less details were available, were the other two members of the six condemned to execution for &#8220;moharebeh&#8221; by Branch 4 of the Ahvaz Revolutionary Court on 14 February 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All six are reported to have undergone repeated, severe, and prolonged torture in the time between their arrests and being hauled before the Revolutionary Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their torture-tainted confessions were aired on state media before the commencement of their legal proceedings had even begun and the six had been reportedly brought to the gallows&nbsp;on several occasions before eventually being put to death on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their &#8220;confessions&#8221; extracted under torture and their grossly unfair &#8220;trials&#8221;, held behind closed doors with pressure exerted by the Islamic Republic&#8217;s security agencies, render the convictions of the six condemned men null and void by any objective and proper legal standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saman Mohammadi Khiyareh was born in 1990 in Sanandaj, Kordestan Province.&nbsp; The Mizan News Agency reported that he was arrested on 30 November 2013, but independent sources state his arrest as having in fact taken place in 2009 when he was just 19 years old. &nbsp;By the time of his execution, he had already been in prison for 16 years.&nbsp; Mr. Mohammadi Khiyareh was initially sentenced to death by Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court &#8211; presided over by notorious &#8220;hanging judge&#8221; Abolqasem Salavati &#8211; on charges of &#8220;moharebeh; membership of a dissident group; and contact with foreign intelligence services&#8221;, but this sentence was overturned by the Supreme Court owing to insufficient evidence and their deeming of his conviction as unsafe. &nbsp;However, the same Revolutionary Court simply re-tried him on the same charges, and his death sentence was reinstated under pressure from the security agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Mohammadi Khiyareh repeatedly and consistently stated that his confessions to the charges had been obtained under severe torture and psychological pressure, and he explicitly denied having ever participated in armed struggle. &nbsp;He made clear right up to the date of his execution that the charges against him had been fabricated by the Islamic Republic&#8217;s security forces and he was tortured to &#8220;confess&#8221; throughout his interrogations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CODIR calls for the launching of an immediate campaign by all trade unions in Britain and internationally that advocate for human and democratic rights, to voice their condemnation of the continuing crimes of the Islamic Republic regime in Iran.&nbsp; A massive <strong>campaign of protest letters to the Islamic Republic embassies and consulates, as well as the representation bureaus of the Islamic Republic at the United Nations and the European Union, should be initiated as a matter of urgency.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The office of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Mai Sato &#8211; whose remit covers issues including executions, discrimination against women and minorities, suppression of dissent, and due process violations -should also be lobbied to put pressure on the authorities in Iran to fulfil their obligations under the terms of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (to which Iran is a signatory), all UN protocols, as well as international law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on this campaign and other areas of CODIR\u2019s work please contact:&nbsp; <a href=\"mailto:codir_info@btinternet.com\">codir_info@btinternet.com<\/a> &nbsp;or <a href=\"mailto:CODIR.Executive@gmail.com\">CODIR.Executive@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"share-this\">\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\"\nclass=\"twitter-share-button\"\ndata-count=\"horizontal\">Tweet<\/a>\n                    <script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>\n                    <div class=\"facebook-share-button\">\n                        <iframe\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fcodir.net%2F%3Fp%3D4132&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=200&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=21\"\nscrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\noverflow:hidden; width:200px; height:21px;\"\nallowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CODIR unequivocally condemns the theocratic dictatorship in Iran for the savage executions of at least 118 people since 20 September. 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