The Iranian judiciary has announced the execution of the death sentences of Mohammad Faramarzi, Mohsen Mazloum, Wafa Azarbar, and Pejman Fatehi. These four prisoners were accused by the inhumane regime of the mullahs of ‘spying’ for Israel.
Mizan News Agency, the official media outlet of the Judiciary, claims that these individuals planned a bombing in Isfahan last summer with the cooperation of Israel. However, security forces arrested them a few days before carrying out this operation.
In recent days, numerous political and civil activists, along with human rights organizations, had called for a halt to the execution of these political prisoners.
While the Iranian judicial system had not announced the execution time of this sentence, the concerns about their imminent execution had increased as their families were called to the prison to meet them. Additionally, these four prisoners were transferred from Evin to Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj.
On January 16, the lawyer of Wafa Azarbar, Mohammad (Hajir) Faramarzi, Mohsen Mazloum, and Pejman Fatehi announced that the request for a retrial of his clients was rejected.
Masoud Shamsnejad also pointed out that, in security cases, the documents are not made available to the lawyers.
The details of the charges and sentences issued for these prisoners remain unclear, and human rights organizations have deemed their death sentences unfair, emphasizing that all stages of arrest and trial are conducted in secret.
Meanwhile, Mizan News Agency claimed that these four individuals were ‘recruited by Mossad through the Komalah organization and were sent to African countries in several stages, undergoing full operational training in the military headquarters of those countries.’
The report also stated that Mossad Chief David Barnea even ‘gave them a speech’ in one of the ‘training sessions.’
The execution of these four prisoners took place while a senior UN human rights official is planning to travel to Iran.
Nada al-Nashif, the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations, is scheduled to travel to Iran from February 2 to 5 on a planned trip to examine two officially declared issues: ‘execution’ and ‘women’s rights.’
Last week, the mothers of Mohsen Mazloum, Mohammad Faramarzi, Wafa Azarbar, and Pejman Fatehi wrote an open letter to Mrs. Al-Nashif, referring to the ‘illegal and extrajudicial’ process of their children’s trial, urging her to respect the basic rights of the families of prisoners sentenced to death during this trip.
Political Prisoner Abbas Deris Sentenced to Death
Iran’s regime’s Supreme Court rejected the request for a retrial of Abbas Deris, a political prisoner sentenced to death.
Fershteh Tabanian, the lawyer of this citizen who was arrested during the protests of October 2019, wrote on Sunday, January 28, on the X social network: ‘Despite many objections to the decision of the lower court, the retrial of my client Abbas Deris in the Supreme Court was rejected.’
During the October 2019 protests, Abbas Deris was arrested along with his brother Mohsen in Mahshahr and accused of ‘Moharebeh, disturbing public order, and participating in the murder of Reza Sayyadi, one of the regime’s special forces of the police force known as Counter-terrorism Special Force (Nopo).’
The Mahshahr Revolutionary Court sentenced him to death in November 2022, and the 39th branch of the regime’s Supreme Court confirmed this verdict.
Mahshahr and its peripheral towns were one of the main centers of protests in October 2019. Until today, numerous accounts of the severity of repression there, especially the firing on protesters in the reeds of this city, have been published.
The severity of the repression in Mahshahr was such that, according to some accounts, like the New York Times report, between 40 and 100 people were killed in this city and its peripheral towns.
Some civil and political activists mention Abbas Deris as one of the few witnesses of Mahshahr’s reeds massacre.
