Political Prisoner Writes Revealing Letter to UN Special Rapporteur
- Thursday, 17 November 2016 20:37
NCRI - In a revealing letter to Mrs. Asma Jahangir, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Mr. Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Mrs. Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the EU Foreign Affairs, the political prisoner Behnam Ebrahimzadeh exposes some of the Iranian regime’s criminal acts.
Attached to Ebrahimzadeh’s letter is a list containing the names of the prisoners who have been killed over the past few years, either mysteriously or by prison guards.
In a part of his letter, the political prisoner Behnam Ebrahimzadeh writes: “if today’s world is known for such indicators as progress and technology, the Iranian regime, on the contrary, is known for its support of state-terrorism, sectarianism, ethnic conflict, fueling religious differences in Iran and across the region, imprisonment, execution and suppression of dissidents and critics and a widespread human rights violations.”
Ebrahimzadeh adds that “it’s quite clear to public opinion that the Iranian regime’s Human Rights Record has been one of the most disastrous among the countries in the world.”
He then continues his letter by pointing to the killings committed by the Iranian regime’s intelligence agents and writes: “the targeted and politically-motivated murder of tens of political activists and critics in prisons, including Shahrokh Zamani, Hoda Saber and Sattar Beheshti, execution of thousands of prisoners in recent years, ignoring the rights of women, religious and ethnic minorities, and the targeted killing of the traffickers and tradesmen in western borders of the country, is an ongoing tragedy which is taking place every day in my country.”
Behnam Ebrahimzadeh points to the killings over the last few decades and writes: “the Iranian regime’s officials should be held accountable for the executions in the 80s and the massacre in the summer of 1988. Who is responsible for these killings, anyway? Why no criminal case in this regime has been finalized? That’s because all these crimes are initiated at Khamenei’s office and carried out under his own supervision.”
