Tuesday, 30th June 2009
Iranian protestors may face execution, warns Euro MP
Scots Tory MEP, Struan Stevenson, today expressed concern for the Iranian detainees, arrested during recent protests, as fears grow for their lives.
His warning comes on the back of news coming out of Iran that the theocratic regime has established a special three-man tribunal to deal with thousands of arrested protestors.
Fears are mounting that many of the detainees face torture and even execution at the hands of the tribunal as the oppressive mullah-led regime tries to re-assert control. This follows demands made by Mullah Ahmad Khatami, a member of the mullahs’ Assembly of Experts, who in a sermon on June 26, said those arrested had ‘waged war on God’ and should face execution.
An estimated 2,000 students and other protestors were detained during the uprising that took place following the fraudulent election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Speaking in Brussels, Mr Stevenson said:
"I am deeply concerned that a humanitarian tragedy is unfolding before our eyes in Iran. The violent crackdown on protesters, combined with the diversionary arrest of Iranian workers from the British Embassy in Tehran, all point towards a regime that is struggling to save itself through the unleashing of a wave of killings and executions, aimed at spreading fear and terror throughout Iran.
"Information leaked from inside the regime points to the fact that Ahmadinejad has appointed a tribunal of executioners to oversee the punishment of the arrested protesters.”
Mr Stevenson has received information which indicates that Mullah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi, the notorious head of the regime’s Judiciary, has set up a three-man committee consisting of Prosecutor-General mullah Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi, General Inspection Organisation Director Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi and First Deputy Judiciary chief Ebrahim Reissi.
Struan continues:
"This new committee is eerily reminiscent of the “Death Committee” founded by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1988, which in the space of a few weeks ordered the execution of 30,000 political prisoners. Two of the new tribunal - Pour-Mohammadi and Raissi - were members of the original "Death Committee", while Dorri-Najafabadi, a former Intelligence Minister, is responsible for many killings and crimes under the current theocratic regime. All three members of the new committee have committed crimes against humanity.
"I am calling on the UN Secretary General, the UN Security Council and the EU to condemn the crimes of the mullahs’ regime and refer the criminal file of those responsible for executions, killings and suppression to an international tribunal.”
