Iranian students observe the Student Day every year to show that universities remain a fortress for freedom. This year, too, they reiterated that the uprising is going to continue by commemorating more than 1,000 people who were martyred in the Iran uprising in mid-November.
In Tehran, students of Tehran, Amir Kabir, Allameh Tabatabaii Universities, and the Teachers Training University among others commemorated the Student Day by gathering on their campuses.
The students of Tehran University held a gathering despite heavy security measures due to the presence of Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Ra’isi on their campus. They held placards and protested the heavy security atmosphere. They chanted, “(despite) jail, guns, batons, we will not remain silent,” “the nation is fed up with oppression and are standing side by side,” “your repression is not going to work, we live to resist,” “classrooms are empty, students are in prison.”
Students of the Tehran University’s School of Art gathered around a symbolic grave, commemorating “those killed but not buried.” They chanted, “Free all imprisoned students.” Other university students held similar protests.
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Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)for the transition period called on the United Nations and said: taking urgent action to stop crimes against humanity is the raison d’être for the UN and the Security Council. Inaction vis-à-vis this unprecedented massacre is inexcusable and will be construed by the Iranian regime as a green light to continue and intensify its crimes. It is also a deep scar on the conscience of humanity.
THE NAMES OF 30 MARTYRS IDENTIFIED TODAY ARE AS FOLLOWS:
1. Khorramshahr – Mohsen Mohammadpour
2. Khorramshahr – Mohsen Najl Ali Mania’t
3. Minab – Hossein Torkamani
4. Minab – Mohammad Jalali
5. Ahvaz – Reza Darabpour
6. Ahvaz – Masoumeh Darabpour
7. Shiraz – Kianoush Qardashi
8. Shiraz – Kambiz Qardashi
9. Shiraz – Majid Reyhani
10. Shiraz – Hamid Reyhani
11. Shiraz – Hashem Zare
12. Shiraz – Vahid Torabi
13. Shiraz – Farshad Miri
14. Kermanshah – Qolam Tabzar
15. Kermanshah – Massoud Moradi
16. Kermanshah – Manouchehr Fathi
17. Kermanshah – Vahid Fathi
18. Kermanshah – Ali Alqasi
19. Kermanshah – Mohammad Naderi
20. Kermanshah – Houshang Karimi
21. Kermanshah – Saeed Amiri
22. Kermanshah – Reza Mahmoodi
23. Kermanshah – Saeed Bayj
24. Kermanshah – Heshmat Moradi
25. Kermanshah – Khosro Karimi
26. Kermanshah – Mahmoud Rezai
27. Karaj – Farokh Qafari
28. Andimeshk – Shafi Baztab
29. Andimeshk – Ali Esfandiari
30. Arak – Farhad Miri
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After the flogging sentence, the old woman was in horrible physical condition unable move. Then she was taken to the women’s ward of the Prison of Khoy to serve an eight month sentence in prison.
Salbi Marandi had a son, Behrouz Zeinal-Nejad. He was an ordinary prisoner who sewed his lips and went on hunger strike last January in protest to the authorities’ refusal to extend his furlough. On the fifth day of his hunger strike, he died in suspicious circumstances.
Prison authorities said he had committed suicide. The family of this prisoner, including his mother and sister, rejected this claim after seeing his corpse. They went to the prison’s office and objected to the authorities. They were mistreated by the prison warden and the judge, and they got engaged in a quarrel. The prison warden and the judge filed a complaint against this family and the Public Court of Khoy sentenced Salbi Marandi and Atefeh Zeinal-Nejad to 70 lashes and 8 months in prison, each. Atefeh Zeinal-Nejad has so far evaded reporting in to the court for her sentence to be implemented.
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Labor activist Neda Naji was arrested and detained with undecided status in the notorious Qarchak Prison on May 1, 2019. She was brutalized in prison at least twice by prisoners incited by prison authorities.
Civil activist women Raha Ahmadi and Leila Mir Ghaffari were also sentenced to 4 years in prison, each, by the Revolutionary Court of Tehran on December 4, 2019.
Conservationist Sepideh Kashani was transferred from the Intelligence Ministry ward 209 in Evin
Zahra Zare’e Seraji, a political prisoner detained in the Qarchak Prison of Varamin, went on hunger strike on November 24, 2019, to protest the breach of the principle of separation of prisoners’ categories and lack of potable water. On December 1, 2019, she felt very ill and was transferred to the prison’s dispensary. Ms. Zare’e suffers from epilepsy. In 2018, she was sentenced to two years in prison.
on December 3, 2019, the Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced Moloud Hajizadeh, a journalist, to two years in prison and payment of 4 million tomans of cash fine.
On December 2, 2019, Shahnaz Akmali, mother of Mostafa Karim Beigi, martyr of the 2009 uprising, was summoned to the Office for the Implementation of Verdicts, for serving her one-year sentence.
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Somayyeh Shahbazi Jahrouii is the 98th woman to be hanged and executed during Rouhani’s tenure as president of the clerical regime since 2013.
The Iranian regime is the world’s top executioner of women. Since the beginning of 2019, it has executed at least 11 women which is an escalation in the number of executions of women compared to the 9 women executed during the entire year 2016, ten women in 2017, and 6 women in 2018.
As a consequence of the clerical regime’s failure to categorize deliberate murders according to their degrees, anyone committing murder is sentenced to death, regardless of their motives. Many of the women convicted of murder in Iran are themselves victims of violence against women and have committed murder in self-defense.
In days when the world is endeavoring to raise awareness about violence against women and eliminate this ominous phenomenon, the clerical regime in Iran executes a woman who was victim of violence. At the same time, it is shooting down protesters or killing them under torture, including a considerable number of women.
The Iranian regime is the world’s top record holder of per capita executions. The clerical regime deploys the death penalty as a tool for maintaining its grab on power and for silencing a disgruntled populace the majority of whom live under the poverty line.
At least 4,000 persons have been executed during Rouhani’s terms in office since 2013. The actual number of executions are much higher because the majority of executions in Iran are carried out secretly, away from the public eye where only the masterminds and perpetrators are witness to them. The Iranian Resistance calls for end to the practice of the death penalty in Iran.
