{"id":11879,"date":"2018-09-17T19:42:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T23:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=11879"},"modified":"2018-09-17T19:44:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T23:44:13","slug":"iranian-political-prisoner-reveals-shocking-facts-about-execution-of-kurdish-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2018\/09\/17\/iranian-political-prisoner-reveals-shocking-facts-about-execution-of-kurdish-inmates\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Political Prisoner Reveals Shocking Facts About Execution of Kurdish Inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0execution of Kurdish political prisoners<\/a>\u00a0last week by the Iranian regime has sparked international outrage and a\u00a0widespread strike<\/a> by merchants in several Iranian cities. But according to inmates who were in the same prison and ward as Ramin Hosseinpanahi, Loghman Moradi and Zaniar Moradi, the three executed prisoners weren\u2019t only deprived of their most basic judicial rights, but they were also deprived of the chance to say goodbye to their fellow inmates and families.<\/p>\n

In an open letter that has been secretly sent out of prison, Iranian political prisoner Hassan Sadeghi, who shared a ward with Zaniar and Loghman in Iran\u2019s Gohardasht Prison, has revealed damning details about the circumstances that the political prisoners were taken for execution, which are reminiscent of the violence and terror that has been plaguing the entire history of the mullahs\u2019 regime.<\/p>\n

Reiterating periods during which the Iranian regime carried out widespread executions of Iranian opposition members, Sadeghi, who has spent many years in the Iranian regime\u2019s prisons, writes, \u201cThe summer of 1981 was ruthless, as so was the summer of 1988 and 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the September of 1981\u2026 we were 100 youths, aged 15-20, packed in a room where we shared our griefs and joys. Not a day went by without 10-15 people being executed. The names were called at around noon by the prison\u2019s loudspeakers, which had become like a death knell,\u201d writes Sadeghi. The prisoners then had about an hour\u2019s time to pack their belongings and say farewell to their friends and fellow inmates. \u201cThey wouldn\u2019t waste the hour they had, they would hug the other inmates and bid them farewell. When they were gone, we would wait to hear the sounds of gunshots, which indicated the end of the event. We would count the coup-de-grace shots (which specified how many prisoners had been executed).\u201d The numbers sometimes amounted to 30 or 50 in a single day, Sadeghi recounts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the September of 1988, a single question was asked and a \u2018yes\u2019 or \u2018no\u2019 determined the fate of the prisoner,\u201d Sadeghi recounts, referring to\u00a0the 1988 massacre<\/a>, where the Iranian regime executed more than 30,000 political prisoners<\/a> across the country in the span of a few months. Prisoners were asked whether they would repent their ties to and support for the Iranian opposition group\u00a0People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK)<\/a>. If they didn\u2019t, they would immediately be sent to the gallows.<\/p>\n

Again, when the names were called, there was time to say farewell before the prisoners were taken away, Sadeghi writes, even though no one learned of their exact fate.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut on September 5, this time in 2018, they didn\u2019t even declare names,\u201d Sadeghi says. \u201cThey said that the prison\u2019s administration has summoned Zaniar, which was pretty common. Half-an-hour later, they called Loghman, which again was common. We thought they were taken to the administration to call their families.\u201d<\/p>\n

But an hour later, all the phones of the prison were cut off, Sadeghi recounts, and when the prisoners asked the guards, they were told that a utility vehicle had accidentally cut the telephone cables. \u201cWe started becoming worried about [Loghman and Zaniar],\u201d Sadeghi writes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 1981, they declared names and we knew what to anticipate. In 1988, they declared names and we knew what to anticipate,\u201d Sadeghi writes. \u201cBut this time, we were left in the dark about what had happened to them. Why is the prison administration lying? Why aren\u2019t the prisoners returning?\u201d<\/p>\n

Three days later, the prisoners of Gohardasht learned that their fellow inmates, Loghman and Zaniar Moradi had been executed, and they hadn\u2019t even had the chance to say goodbye, Sadeghi says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 40 years, this regime has set no limits to its crimes and it is filling the days and months with blood,\u201d Sadeghi writes. \u201cThey died, but the memories of the blood-filled summers of Iran\u2019s prisons will remain until and after the dawn of freedom sheds its light on my homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: PMOI\/MEK\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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