This brutal campaign, marked by a series of harrowing verdicts and executions, signals an alarming escalation in the regime’s repressive tactics.
On December 12, 2023, the regime’s judiciary imposed a harsh sentence on Masoumeh Yavari, a 45-year-old mother of two. Convicted on charges of “destroying public property,” “membership in the MEK,” and “propaganda against the system,” Yavari has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. Arrested in September 2023 in Golpayegan, she is currently held in the Dolat Abad prison in Isfahan.
This isn’t her first encounter with the regime’s brutality; she was previously imprisoned from 2009 to 2012 for her participation in the 2009 uprising and communication with the MEK.
In a simultaneous development, the Revolutionary Court of Evin prison charged three female political prisoners , Marzieh Farsi, Forough Taghipour, and Nasim Gholami Fard with “sedition,” a fabricated accusation that could lead to execution or long-term imprisonment. Taghipour, a 29-year-old previously arrested for her connections with the MEK, was re-arrested on August 21, 2023, after a brief release. Her family has a history of persecution by the regime, with several relatives executed in the 1980s and others currently in exile.
Marzieh Farsi, 58, is similarly targeted due to her familial ties to the MEK. Her brother Hassan Farsi was executed in the 1988 massacre, and other siblings reside in Ashraf 3, Albania, a known MEK stronghold. Farsi, arrested alongside Taghipour in Tehran, faces severe charges for her alleged MEK affiliations.
The regime’s execution spree extends beyond these political imprisonments. On December 13, Mohammad Reza Habibian was executed in Babol for the murder of Abbas Ali Soleimani, a regime official. The same day, Davoud Khadem faced execution in Sanandaj. Prior to this, on December 12, five individuals were executed in Karaj and Shirvan, and on December 9, four prisoners were executed in Zahedan, with two more in Qom. The list goes on, with executions carried out in Urmia, Sanandaj, Saqqez, Dehdasht, Yasuj, and Rafsanjan — a relentless wave of state-sanctioned killings.
This surge in executions is seen as the regime’s futile effort to quell the rising tide of rebellion among the youth and the broader populace. The Iranian Resistance is calling on international bodies, including the United Nations and the European Union, to strongly condemn these atrocities.
They urge the establishment of an international fact-finding mission to visit Iranian prisons, meet with political prisoners, and those sentenced to death, highlighting the urgent need for global intervention to halt these human rights violations.
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