Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi has recently responded to the reaction by the international community to the execution of Navid Afkari. He said, “Justice-seeking judges who have to answer to God issue verdicts based on law and Sharia.

The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK Iran), supporters who have been tried in Evin Prison may face execution, as the regime believes they are anti-God. It appears that these most recent executions are being used to terrorize MEK supporters within Iran so that they stop supporting the resistance.

Branch 38 of the Mullahs’ Supreme Court recently upheld the death penalty against 7 Sunni political prisoners who were being held in Ward 7 of Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran.

Mrs Maryam Rajavi the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran’s (NCRI): Call for action in Iran and around the world to prevent the executions of 7 Sunni political prisoners.

The names of these prisoners are

• Farhad Salimi,
• Qassem Absteh,
• Davood Abdollahi,
• Ayub Karimi,
• Anwar Khezri,
• Khosrow Besharat,
• Kamran Sheikha.

They have been in Urmia, Evin, and Gohardasht prisons for as long eleven years, and had previously been sentenced to execution in the Supreme Court Branches 41 and 42.

In early August Branch, 27 of the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for Haidar Ghorbani from Kamyaran, both political prisoners, and have directed the case to the Sanandaj prosecution office which carries out the penalties imposed in court.

Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi has recently responded to the reaction by the international community to the execution of Navid Afkari. He said, “Justice-seeking judges who have to answer to God issue verdicts based on law and Sharia. Commotions must not and cannot impact the view of a judge.”

Ali Bagheri, the Judiciary’s International Affairs Deputy, also commented on the widespread protests against Navid Afkari‘s hanging by Iranians in other countries and expressed anger that European countries allowed Iranians to show their anger at Afkari inhumane execution by saying that they “support murder under the guise of human rights.”

Bagheri also commented on the German ambassador to Iran’s tweet about Afkari’s execution by stating the following: “If they have no clue about righteousness and justice, they should at least respect diplomatic norms and do not become a mouthpiece for spreading lies like an opposition group.”

The MEK believes that the religious theocracy of the mullahs is using the execution of the opposition because it wants to scare the opposition into submission as it fears a government overthrow is imminent.

The MEK is now calling on these international organizations to request that death row prisoners should be saved:

• United Nations Security Council,
• the U.N. Secretary-General,
• the Human Rights Council,
• the High Commissioner for Human Rights,
• all international human rights organizations;
• the European Union and its member states.

It also wants the above organizations to send a team to the Iranian prisons which are holding death row political prisoners and negotiate their release from such a barbaric penalty.

Abridged article was written by Hamid Enayat, writing in the Riyadh Daily,