According to the Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights, at least 481 people have been killed and at least 109 are at risk of execution because of the protests. At least four have already been hanged.
Thirty political prisoners in Iran, including French-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelka and the daughter of former president Hashemi Rafsanjani, signed an article published on Sunday demanding an end to the executions of protesters in the Islamic Republic.
“We, political and ideological prisoners in the women’s wing of Evin Prison (in Tehran), demand an end to the executions of protesters and the unjust punishments imposed on prisoners in Iran,” reads the text, a copy of which was obtained by AFP .
“Regardless of our religious and political beliefs and origins,” we were all “sentenced to a total of 124 years in prison after unfair and opaque procedures,” sentences “equal to several generations.”
French-Iranian Fariba Adelka was arrested in June 2019 and sentenced to five years in prison for “endangering” “national security”. Nahid Taghavi, a German-Iranian women’s rights activist, was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison in 2021 on similar grounds.
Faezeh Hashemi, a former lawmaker and daughter of former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani, was sentenced in January to five years in prison for criticizing the clerical regime. Niloufar Bayani, an environmental activist, was sentenced to serve six years in prison for “espionage”.
According to the Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights, at least 481 people have been killed and at least 109 are at risk of execution because of the protests. At least four have already been hanged.
Tehran admits that hundreds of people have been killed, including members of the security forces.
The UN says at least 14,000 have been arrested in the four months of protests that began in mid-September in Iran.
The trigger for the mass mobilizations was the death of a young Iranian of Kurdish origin. Mahsha Amini, 22, died on September 16, three days after she was arrested in Tehran by morality police, who accused her of not fully covering her hair and thus violating the Islamic Republic’s extremely strict dress code laws. of women.
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