Iran: Head of Judiciary Orders Quick Sunni Prisoners' Execution

ordered that Sunni prisoners convicted of drug trafficking to be executed as soon as possible so that they won’t be subject to the new legislation approved by regime’s Parliament.

According to reports, a senior judiciary official has revealed a secret decree given by the head of regime’s judiciary ‘Sadegh Amoli Larijani’ to courts to quickly go ahead with the execution of Sunni prisoners convicted of drug trafficking.

Sunni Prisoners' Execution

Iran:Disabled Mother of Iranian Prisoner of Faith Begs for the Release of Her Son

Disabled Mother of Iranian Prisoner of Faith Begs for the Release of Her Son

In an article by Stoyan Zaimov, in the August 24 Christian Post, he writes about the plight of a disabled mother of a Christian prisoner in Iran.  Her son is held in Rajaei-Shahr prison, and she has been unable to visit him because she is visually impaired.

As reported by Mohabat News on Tuesday, Ebrahim Firouzi, is one of several people imprisoned because of their Christian faith. Because he was not allowed access to his defense documents, he refused to attend his appeals court hearing. His appointed judge was not present, so the hearing has been postponed for four months.

According to the National Council of Resistance of Iran, Firouzi was arrested in August 2013, and sentenced to five years in prison in 2015. he was charged with "acting against national security," a charge often given to prisoners of faith in Iran.

Firouzi's mother pled with officials to handle her son's case fairly and to release him.  "Crying as she delivered the message to the authorities, Mr. Firouzi's elderly mother said that she is visually impaired and there is nothing she can do and has no one to help her. She said she doesn't have the ability to go from court to court and follow up on her son's case," Mohabat News reports.  "She added that she misses her son and because of her disability she has not been able to visit her son in prison. She pleaded with the authorities to release her son so he can come home.”

Iran regime demolishes entire Sunni village.

Iran regime demolishes entire Sunni village

Graphic evidence has emerged of a village bulldozed to the ground by Iran's fundamentalist regime in the Sunni-majority, poverty-stricken province of Sistan and Baluchistan, southeast Iran.

In the early morning hours of Sunday, December 27, the regime's state security forces arrived at the village of Shahidan-e Danesh-Payeh in 50 police vehicles and 10 loaders, according to eye-witnesses, and began to demolish the villagers’ homes.

Shahidan-e Danesh-Payeh is about two kilometers from the impoverished province's largest city and provincial capital Zahedan. The small village, officially listed in the municipality records with the village code 711891, had a municipality sign, and its electricity and water pipes were connected to the larger municipalities' networks.

The suppressive security forces claimed that the homes had been built illegally on the land.

One eye-witness said that of twenty homes in the village only two were left standing, whose owners had said that they would not leave their homes even if they were brought down on their heads. The regime’s agents threatened the two families inside that they had only days to vacate the premises before the demolition would go ahead anyway.

Ali Safavi of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) condemned the atrocities of the mullahs’ regime against Iran’s Sunni minority. “This inhumane act is the latest in a series of repressive measures undertaken by the authorities to further marginalize our Sunni brethren in Iran. Ironically, it is happening under the so-called moderate Hassan Rouhani’s watch and lays bare the sectarian and intolerant nature of the clerical regime as it pertains to Iran’s diverse religious and ethnic minorities,” he added.