At least 90 protesters detained in Iran face execution or life-threatening charges, 24CA News has learned | 24CA News

This month, an inventory was shared with 24CA News from inside Iran, of the names of protesters who face execution by regime authorities.

In session with a number of activists and by accessing reporting by numerous human rights teams, 24CA News can title 90 people detained in Iran as being at excessive threat. 

According to data accessible, at the least 19 have been sentenced to demise, 65 may face execution and 6 have been handed prolonged and unsure jail phrases.

The overwhelming majority of those people are accused by the regime of “waging war against God” and “corruption on earth” — crimes punishable by demise underneath the Islamic Republic’s sharia regulation.

Protests in Iran erupted in September after a younger Iranian girl named Mahsa Amini died in police custody. The 22-year-old had been arrested by the regime’s so-called morality police, allegedly for not carrying her hijab correctly, a part of the regime’s strict Islamic gown code. Her household says she was overwhelmed to demise.

Activists shine highlight on detained protesters

Human rights activists inform 24CA News the necessity to determine and publicize the names of the detained protesters is pressing.

They say the eye and public stress on the authorities in Iran, will assist save the lives of many who’re unvoiced. 

Across Europe dozens of politicians have taken on sponsorship of the overwhelming majority of the names listed.

Many parliamentarians and senators in international locations like Germany, Austria and France are amplifying the tales of those that have been detained and are lobbying Iranian ambassadors for his or her launch.

Over 18,000 folks have to date been detained by the Islamic Republic for the reason that begin of the anti-regime protests in September, in keeping with the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). Of these, 506 had been killed — together with 69 kids and youngsters — as of Dec. 21, 2022.

In lower than a month, Iranian authorities arrested, charged and carried out two recognized executions of Mohsen Shekari and Majid Reza Rahnavard.

Treatment of unidentified prisoners

Iranian-Canadian activist Golsa Golestaneh, who focuses on fact-checking and propaganda, says the 2 males had been “executed in silence” as a result of the regime is usually in a position to “distort the truth” by amplifying false costs and convictions of detained prisoners.

Golestaneh is the spokesperson of an advocacy group referred to as Waves (امواج), made up of younger Iranians in and out of doors Iran who need to have a say within the political opposition to the regime.

“It is extremely important to continue emphasizing the unpredictability of the Islamic regime while recognizing the importance of accuracy, to the extent possible, to minimize the chances of another silent murder.”

When it involves the remedy of unidentified prisoners in Iran, Masoud Kazemi, a journalist based mostly in Turkey, says the regime has a “dark history and horrific track record.”

“Detained protesters who are unidentified are subjected to more torture and suffering than others,” Kazemi mentioned. “And they are also given lengthier prison terms and are sometimes also sentenced with execution.”

Activists warning that executions are simply one of many methods the regime kills prisoners. Golestaneh says that even when prisoners in Iran aren’t going through executions, their lives are nonetheless in danger.

“The tortures are severe and several people have been killed under it. Some committed suicide or their families were forced to say they’ve committed suicide inside prison,” she mentioned.

Kurdish human rights activist Soran Mansournia, who works on figuring out prisoners and people killed by the regime, is urging households to return ahead and publish the names of their family members.

“In the last two months, at least seven people from Iranian Kurdistan died under the torture of security forces of the Islamic Republic,” Mansournia mentioned. 

“Many prisoners’ lives are in danger and we don’t even know their names. I ask all their families to make public the abduction of their loved ones.”