Execution threat against prisoners in Iran

Execution threat against prisoners in Iran

According to what the Tudeh Party regards as reliable information, the Iranian government is preparing to execute 44 political prisoners.

There are also indications, the party says, of plans to execute a number of protesters who were recently detained following street clashes with the security organs of the regime.

"The regime has intensified the oppression inside the country and has even extended it to the 'legal' press", Tudeh said in a press release on May 24. "During the last months a number of publications that have criticised the present policies of the regime have been shut down and others are threatened with closure. Among publications banned are Jahan Islam (the world of Islam), Payam Daneshjo (Student Message), Review of Iranian History and Takapoo (Try).

The party appealed "to all progressive forces the world over to act urgently by protesting to the Iranian regime in order to avert a new wave of killings of political prisoners".

From GLW issue 189