On Monday, September 8, the Iranian regime’s judiciary informed political prisoner Pejman Toubere Rizi, who is held in Evin Prison, of his death sentence on charges of membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and “corruption on earth.” The verdict had already been typed in advance and was ready to be read out by Judge Amouzad.
Pejman’s trial was held on September 1 in Branch 28 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Amouzad. Earlier, on July 27, Pejman was taken to court in handcuffs and shackles, where the judge asked him to confess to the charges and cooperate with Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence in exchange for exile to Saravan instead of execution, but Pejman refused. Again, on August 16, he was summoned to court without a lawyer, and the judge, citing the charge of “corruption on earth,” demanded that he sign under the death sentence, which Pejman did not accept.
The 85th week of the ‘No to Execution Tuesdays’ campaign in 52 prisons across the country
Pejman Toubere Rizi, a 31-year-old from Kermanshah, was arrested in Tehran on January 28. He was held for more than two and a half months in Evin Prison’s wards 209 and 240, where agents of the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence subjected him to interrogation and torture.
On July 23, regime agents raided Pejman’s father’s home again, and due to their violent behavior, his stepmother, Fariba Vahedi, who was suffering from cancer, went into shock and later passed away.
In this regard, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) called on the United Nations and the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran to take urgent action to save the lives of prisoners sentenced to execution and to secure the release of political prisoners.
