Mohammad Ali Haj-Aghaee

Mohammad Ali Haj Aghaee was from Faridan and was a hardworking laborer.

He was arrested at 1983 accused of supporting PMOI.

At the time of his arrest his two children were struggling with a disease that only a few people have it in millions.

While in prison, he tells her wife to sell everything for the treatment of the children.

The doctors said that his children will become paralyzed at 18 and then will die.

The clerical dictatorship uses the condition of his children as a tool for putting pressure on him at the prison but he resists.

In 1988 when he gets out of prison he is faced with the death of his two children in a short while.

He was once more arrested during the uprisings of 1988.

At his trial the criminal judge Moghisehee smells his file and says: “it smells like Ashraf (the place of residence of PMOI members in Iraq)”.

His lawyer was not even allowed to see the file. The lawyer said: “I just know that he was accused of being a Mohareb (one who wages war against God)” but the lawyer added: “I don’t know in which Harb (fight against God here) he had participated. If they call the unarmed protests a Harb then millions had participated in this Harb and they are still Mohareb.

Moghisehee told Aghaee in court that he will be executed unless he confesses that he was a spy of Israel and he had received money from US.

Mohammad Ali Haj Aghaee was executed at dawn of today, Monday Jan. 24. 2011. together with Jafar Kazemi.

Jafar Kazemi

RAHANA – Jafar Kazemi was arrested on September 18, 2009 and sentenced to death. In a letter written to the United Nation’s secretary general and published by HRDAI, Kazemi’s wife describes the family’s ordeal since her husband’s arrest.

Jafar Kazemi has been executed today, 24th of January in the early morning in Tehran.

The following is the English translation of Rodabeh Akbari’s letter:

My name is Roudabeh Akbari. I am a housewife, married to the political prisoner Jafar Kazemi and a mother of two children.

My husband was arrested on September 18, 2009 at 6 am on Haft-Hoz Street in Tehran. We did not hear from him for two weeks. He was tortured for three days and then placed in solitary confinement for 74 days under harsh conditions.
My husband was accused of supporting and propagandizing for the Mojahedin Organization (MKO), as well as visiting our son in Ashraf (MKO camp in Iraq).
In prison, after being tortured and spending three months in solitary, he was pressured to make televised confessions. Faced with his resistance, they then tortured him again, and three of his teeth were broken as a result of severe beatings. Presently, my husband remains in a worrisome physical and emotional state.
At the end of the initial trial, during which judge Moghiseh sentenced him to death, my husband’s lawyer verbally objected to the ruling, which he argued was excessive and unlawful for the existing charge of anti-state propaganda. The judge remarked that he was under pressure at that time by higher authorities to rule in this fashion. According to my husband’s lawyer, during the second trial, the court did not even look at the defense statement, which contained 3 pages of arguments regarding the anti-state propaganda charge, and in a 2-line ruling upheld the initial court’s ruling (death sentence). Judge
Zargar was the judge who presided over the appeal hearing.
The interrogator has told my husband that “we need to sacrifice a few in order to save the regime, and your name has been drawn as one of them”. My husband was asked again to make an interview about the Ashura events of December 27th 2009, but he refused to comply as was arrested 3 months before Ashura. The interrogators threatened that if he refused to make the confession, they would torture his wife and his children before his eyes. In spite of threats by the interrogators that they would cut his wife in pieces before his eyes, he continued to resist making any confessions in interview. The interrogators reacted by telling my husband that his execution was final and would be enforced. After 74 days of solitary in ward 209, he was held in a place they call the suite, before being moved one week later to ward 350.
For three weeks, despite repeated attempts by me and my younger child, they refused to let us visit with him.
Which law, country or ethics, says that visiting one’s child is a crime? If the Islamic Republic considers visiting your children a crime punishable by death, then my husband is guilty.
Given the critical situation of the political prisoners, and considering the total lack of will to review the inhumane and illegal court rulings against innocent prisoners, I demand the immediate stay of execution for those have been sentenced to death.
What I described above does not only apply not to my husband and our family; all the families of political prisoners are in the same excruciating psychological situation. All the families of political prisoners want immediate action from the United Nations and the UNHCR commissioner.
Yours truly,
Roudabeh Akbari, wife of political prisoner Jafar Kazemi
Ordibehesht 1389

Hossein Khezri has been executed

Hossein Khezri, a 28 years old Kurdish activist and political prisoner has been executed. He was sentenced to death because of being "mohareb" which means enemy of God.

Haj Dadollah Moradzehi

February 21, 2010, disponible from archive
A citizen from the state of Sistan and Baluchestan who was arrested about 8 months ago was executed in the city of Zahedan yesterday, February 20, 2010

HRANA - Haj Dadollah Moradzehi who had been arrested by Sistan and Baluchestan Protection agents in July was executed in the city of Zahedan on Saturday, February 20, 2010. According to Sunni News, Haj Dadollah Moradzehi was executed in the city of Zahedan yesterday, Saturday, February 20. He was arrested by Sistan and Baluchestan Protection agents in July and later sent to the intelligence office. Despite the fact that one month prior to his arrest, the government had agreed to a Guarantee of Security for him, he was tortured in prison and his execution order was carried out regardless of the submission of evidence of his innocence. Haj Dadollah Moradzehi was the paternal uncle of Khodayar Rahmatzehi who was executed on orders from the Revolutionary Court two weeks ago.

Fasih Yasamani - executed

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA): On the morning of Wednesday, January 6th at 4:00am, Fasih Yasamani, a political prisoner, was hanged in Khoy Prison.

According to a report from the Committee of Human Rights Activists in Kurdistan, the execution officials unexpectedly and without following the legal procedure executed this Kurdish citizen who was a native of the village Khoy (located in north-western Iran). He was in prison since 2007. The officials refuse to hand over the body to his family.

Mr. Yasamani was accused of belonging to an opposition party (Pajvak, an armed Kurdish group). However, there was no evidence to support the accusations, except for Mr. Yasamani’s own confessions which, according to him, was said under torture.

Fasih was 28 at the time of his execution. After Ehsan Fatahian [who was executed on Nov 11th], Fasih is the second political prisoner to be executed in the Kurdish region in recent months.

At the moment, there are 17 other political prisoners on death row in Kurdistan:

Ms. Zeynab Jalalian, Habibollah Latifi, Shirkoo Moarefi, Farhad Vakili, Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heydarian, Hossein Khezri, Rashid Akhondaki, Mohammad Amin Agooshi, Ahmad Pouladkhani, Seeyed Sami Hosseini, Seyyed Jamal Mohammadi, Rostam Arkia, Mostafa Salimi, Anvar Rostami, Hasan Talei, and Iraj Mohammadi

Reza Khademi, Arash Rahmanipour, Naser Abdolhasani

These three men (on the picture is Arash Rahmanipour) should be sentenced to death as well in the sham trials, even if they had nothing to do or were even arrested before the elections.

UPDATE: Arash Rahmanipour and Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani have been executed on January 28, 2010.

Mohammad Reza Ali-Zamani

Mohammad Reza Ali-Zamani was sentenced to death during the sham trials following the post-election protests. He was sentenced to death for being member of Anjomane Padeshahi, a pro-monarchist organization banned in Iran.

UPDATE: Mohammad Reza Ali-Zamani has been executed together with Arash Rahmanipour on January 28 2010.

Ehsan Fatahian

Ehsan Fatahian was a kurdish activist. He was accused of helping the Kurdish opposition group Komeleh and participating in propaganda activities against the regime. He was originally sentenced to ten years in prison, but after he appealed to the court, his sentence was changed to death by hanging. He was executed on November 11th 2009.
More information here.

Yunes Aghayan

Yunes Aghayan has been hanged with charges of "enmity towards God" in prison in Oroumieh. Source.

Nasser Kheirollahi

Peykeiran (in Persian) reported the hanging of Nasser Kheirollahi (ناصر خیرالهی), a 49 years old political activist among other executed in these days in Iran.