Amnesty International: 160 more juvenile on death row in Iranian prisons
Samad & Fatemeh, two juveniles recently executed in Iran
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the Iranian regime’s execution of two minors last week, while voicing his concern about the rise in executions in Iran.”(Ban) is deeply saddened by the news of the execution of two juvenile offenders last week in Iran,” Secretary Ban’s press office said in a statement. It added that Iran’s regime has ratified both the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which prohibit the death penalty for anyone under the age of eighteen.
The Amnesty International repots that More than 160 juvenile are believed to be on death row in Iranian prisons. Fatemeh Salbehi, a juvenile offender was hanged on October 13 convicted for the death of her husband, whom she had been forced to marry at the age of 16. A week earlier, Samad Zahabi, another juvenile offender, was executed in secret in Iran. He was sentenced to death in March 2013 for the killing of a fellow shepherd, when he was only seventeen years old.
This systematic trend of repression in Iran in deep-rooted in the barbaric fundamentalism inherited from Ayatollah Khomeini who founded the present regime in Iran. he was a religious leader enormously supported among Iranians at the time. Iranian people, had just come out of the Shah’s dictatorship, looked on him as a savior not knowing what he had in soul. Khomeini, nevertheless, knew exactly how to promote his medieval ideas. He discerned he had to suffocate Iranians who stood up against him. Khomeini declared he was the archetype of Islam on earth enduring to institute the will of God. That was the moment Iranians began to lose everything.
Since president Rouhani came to office, two years ago, the number those executed by his regime is heart rendering to every human being. Public opinion does not tolerate killing another person which is considered as a crime by divine religions, including Islam. Celebrities and representatives, in many countries, have already condemned the executions and the blatant violations of human rights in Iran. Nevertheless Iranian regime’s executioners cannot put down the swords. A great sense of exasperation seethes inside the Iranian population. They have lost everything.
There is not a single part of the Iranian society that is not greatly harmed by this regime. Whether thousand or five thousands, ten thousands, forty or a hundred thousand? Nobody is certain of the real number of political prisoners in Iran. Workers, students, teachers, merchants, nurses, house wives . . . and even newly borne babies’ hopes are tattered by this regime. There is one way to keep angry crowds of Iranian population motionless, sending them to the gallows.
Iranian masses, once promised that the religious tyranny would lead them to utopia, are now buried under severe social problems. Iran’s economy is on the verge of bankruptcy. Many branches of industry cannot afford operating. Workers and government employees are not paid for months. Teachers are on strike all over the country protesting their low level living conditions. Brain drain has the highest rate in Iran. Extortion, corruption and drug dealing are the most lucrative businesses chosen by Iranian regime’s authorities. Mullahs have even stolen water in Iran’s what used to be rivers and lakes.
In last three decades, Mullahs have plundered the wealth of Iranian people. Mullahs, such as Ali Khamenei the Supreme Leader, have reaped milliard Dollars of wealth gift wrapping extreme poverty for the nation. Putting body limbs for sale has become a common way for Iranian citizens to reimburse some of their debts. Nevertheless, any protest will be considered as “Mohareb= one who fights against God”, deserving hanging in public.
Officials in the Iranian government, including President Hassan Rouhani and Larijani Iran’s chief of Judiciary system, have repeatedly said that executions are the “will of God” as if God appointed Iran’s rulers as his representatives on earth. Rulers of Iran will never get away with their outrageous crimes against the Iranian people as well as hurl insult at the name of God. the resistance and protest movements are growing more and more and What will, definitely, prevail is the “ will of God for people” and that is a regime change in Iran.
Keyvan Salami , human right activist writing for peace and progress in the Middle East and regime change in Iran. He Tweets at @SalamiKeyvan