EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA: “They crushed and beat their nails. It’s all to force them to confess something they didn’t do. They’re animals, perverts. I have no words to describe what they’re doing to these kids.” . , Sima Tehrani from the group Prensa Ibérica, collaborator Iranian Human Rights Association in Spain. It refers to three youths, Amir Mohamad Jafari, Arian Farzamnia and Amir Mehdi Shokrollahi, who were allegedly arrested at the funeral of an activist killed during the wave of protests that shook Iran following the murder of young Mahsa Amini.
They give assurances from the association that three of them were sentenced to death by the Iranian regime, but this newspaper could not confirm the sentence. However, it was not possible to obtain advance information on the condition of 23-year-old Majidreza Rahnavard, who was hanged by a crane this Monday for “enemy of God”.
“He was with his mother the previous day and neither he nor he knew what would happen to him. They broke his arm and hung him from a crane to the cheers of the police,” Tehrani said. but he was detained for 23 days. Just days ago, Mohsen Shekari, also a 23-year-old protester, was hanged in a prison.
Human rights organizations on the ground have long been under the control of the Iranian regime. speed up sentences without going through a fair criminal process first. And that is exactly what they fear to happen to more than twenty people, including three teenagers who are now allegedly sentenced to death.
“They were tortured and we don’t know their exact situation. We know that these children, who were taken into custody, were forced to sign confessions without their families and lawyers. Then they make false trials. Even when they are sentenced to death, the defense lawyer, prosecutor, judge, everyone represents the interests of the Iranian Islamic Regime. it all ends in 15 minutes. It looks like a horror movie,” said Tehrani, who has been in exile in Spain for decades.
Belgian MP Darya Safai, who was persecuted by the Iranian regime and sentenced to two years in prison, also spoke in Brussels. condemned the plight of these three minors on his personal Twitter account: “Amir Mohamad Jafari, Arian Farzamnia and Amir Mehdi Shokrollahi. These three 16-year-old boys were kidnapped from school for protesting. They were tortured and forced to make false confessions. Now they are sentenced to ‘destroying the world’, namely the death penalty. Let’s be their voice.”
“The problem is that the Iranian government believes that they are the representatives of God on earth, so anyone who disagrees with what they do, whether it’s the fixed price of electricity, fuel or disrespect for human rights, is against them. In Islam, the maximum possible punishment for this is death,” he said. explains the Iranian Human Rights Association.
Two weeks before Mahsa Emini was killed by the morality police for allegedly not wearing a headscarf, on 16 September, Amnesty International condemned the death penalty for children and adolescents in Iran. The NGO claimed that at least 73 children were formally sentenced to death by the regime between 2005 and 2015, and at least 160 await execution, according to the United Nations.
This week the association met with PSOE and Unidas Podemos to get a response from the Spanish government. They showed their support from the UP to the Iranian Human Rights Association and denounced the “radical regime’s intensification of its repression” against the population as a result of the protests in favor of greater freedom for women.