Three weeks ago, the Supreme Court of the mullahs’ regime upheld the death sentences of these two prisoners on charges of membership of the PMOI, writes Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
On the morning of Sunday 26 January 2025, the henchmen of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei forcibly transferred the political prisoners sentenced to death, Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani, from Wards 4 and 8 of Evin Prison to Qezelhessar Prison without prior notice. These inhumane sentences are carried out in Qezelhessar Prison in Tehran.
Afterwards, the inmates of Ward 4 of Evin Prison gathered in protest and chanted slogans such as “This is the last message, if you execute, there will be an uprising”, “Death to the dictator”, “On the blood of our comrades we stand to the end” and “I will kill the one who killed my brother”.
The death sentences for these two prisoners were originally issued on 16 September 2024 by the notorious ‘Iman Afshari’, head of Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court. The charges included “rebellion against the state, enmity against God, spreading corruption on earth, membership of the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI/MEK), collecting secret information, conspiracy against national security and illegal possession of firearms and ammunition”. These sentences were later confirmed by the Supreme Court of the mullahs’ regime on 7 January 2025.
Seventy-year-old Behrouz Ehsani, a political prisoner since the 1980s, was arrested in Tehran on 6 December 2022 and transferred to Ward 209 of Evin Prison, where he was tortured. After receiving the death sentence, he sent a message to the Iranian people: “…This death penalty regime has nothing else to offer. I will not negotiate my life with anyone and I am ready to sacrifice my insignificant life for the liberation of the Iranian people…”.
Political prisoner Mehdi Hassani, aged 48 and a father of three, was arrested in Zanjan on 11 September 2024 and subsequently transferred to Ward 209 of Evin Prison, where he was also tortured.
In its appeals of 16 and 23 January, Amnesty International called for the immediate quashing of their death sentences, stating: “Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani were convicted of ‘enmity against God’ (moharebeh) and ‘corruption on earth’ (efsad-e fel-arz) and sentenced to death in September 2024 in connection with their alleged support for the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), a banned opposition group. Following their arrest in 2022, they were subjected to torture and other ill-treatment, including prolonged solitary confinement, in order to force them to incriminate themselves. Their trial by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran was grossly unfair”.
On 23 January, the European Parliament adopted a resolution condemning the “systematic repression of human rights in Iran”. The resolution called for the release of political prisoners, especially those sentenced to death, and for the abolition of the death penalty. It urged the European Council “to extend EU sanctions to all those responsible for human rights violations, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, President Masoud Pezeshkian, Head of the Judiciary Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i”.
Source » eureporter