In a statement, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) accused the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence of “intensifying the arrests of MEK supporters and their families” in an effort to “prevent” social protests and uprisings against the government.
The statement noted that in mid-September, death sentences were issued for three MEK supporters, the largest opposition group to the Iranian regime. Additionally, on October 6, seven other detainees went on trial on charges of “rebellion and membership in the MEK.” It added that many supporters of this political group “have mostly been arrested and interrogated since [Masoud] Pezeshkian took office.”
In the laws of the Iranian regime, “rebellion” refers to those who oppose the government and engage in armed struggle against it, for which the punishment is death.
According to this statement, the names of some of the detainees include: “Hojjat Alizadeh, 57, in Yazd prison; Kosar Dehbanzadeh, 33, in the women’s ward of Shiraz prison; Mohammad Ali Tandaro, 31, in Evin prison; Rasoul Sadati, 63, Taghi Mahmoudi, 62, and Sasan Nouri, 37, in Qaemshahr prison; Amin Farahani Kasmaei, 45, in Lakan prison in Rasht; Nira Behnoodi, 53, in the women’s ward of Evin prison; Hossein Sheibani, 37, in Isfahan; Karim Khoshesteh, 61, in Lakan prison in Rasht; Sajjad Pakoush, 36, from Yasuj; and Parisa Kamali, 40, in Isfahan prison.”
The NCRI stated that the names and details of the detainees have been submitted to international bodies.
Earlier, the Iranian regime had issued death sentences for three political prisoners affiliated with the MEK: Behrouz Ehsani Islam-Lo, Mehdi Hassani, and Mohammad Javad Vafa’i Thani. Behrouz Ehsani, 70, who suffers from multiple illnesses, asserted that after 22 months of uncertainty, the Iranian regime’s judiciary “issued a death sentence for him without any evidence.”
It is worth noting that in the summer of 1988, the Iranian regime executed around 30,000 members and supporters of the MEK within a short period.
