Following the murder of Jina Amînî, protests led by women continue. The protests had been continuing for a long time against compulsory veiling. After the murder of J.Amina by the morality police, mass demonstrations continued for days. Artists protesting against the reactionary moral order that designs society through women’s bodies became targets.
Individuals, intellectuals, writers, women, young people who participated in peaceful protests for democracy and equality against the mullah regime were tortured and arrested by the government’s security forces. The reactionary regime, which knows no limits in violence, announced that it would change the „compulsory veiling“ law under public pressure. With this announcement, it took the streets under its control. Then, the dungeons were filled with house raids. The death penalty, which corresponds to a crime against humanity, was put into effect without any legal trial process in the courts established for show. The reactionary regime, which seems to have abolished the punishment of recm (stoning to death) in accordance with Islamic rules, activates all primitive punishments that have been shelved when it comes to social morality. The punishment of stoning to death, which started after the Islamic revolution, has been „normalised“ and accepted. This punishment, which was in practice for years, did not enter the agenda of the countries that often brought „freedom“ and „civilisation“ to the Middle East. Now we are being asked to be silent spectators of capital punishment in the same way.
Unable to suppress the protests of large masses of labourers for their democratic rights and freedoms by forceful methods, the Sharia mullah government executed 199 people in the first four months of 2023 in order to scare the masses and keep them under control. The Iranian Human Rights Organisation announced that 51 of them were Kurds and 42 of them belonged to the Baluch people.
The reactionary fascist system in which women and labourers living in Iran have no democratic rights; different thoughts and having different identities are considered a crime, organising in democratic institutions, gatherings and demonstrations are banned, journalists, intellectuals and human rights defenders, women and revolutionaries are held hostage under severe torture in prisons, children are killed and executed on the streets, in short, medieval customs are applied.
It is a crime against humanity to remain silent against the death penalty and the practices of the mullah regime in Iran, where torture and ill-treatment are widespread and 199 people have been executed in the last 4 months. Every individual who says that he/she is against executions must fight against this crime, struggle to stop the executions and release the prisoners. There are still tens and hundreds of people waiting for their turn to be executed. Unless strong international protests develop, the Sharia regime will kill hundreds of people. Every individual must mobilise to prevent executions. Let us all together say Stop the reactionary Mullah regime. Let execution cease to be a form of „punishment“ and be banned.
Stop Executions, Release Political Prisoners!
Down with the Mullah Regime
ADHK COMMITTEE FOR SOLIDARITY WITH POLITICAL PRISONERS
