Waves of executions of Kurdish and Baluch political prisoners in recent days have raised tensions in the two Sunni-dominated border provinces of Kurdistan and Baluchistan.
On 26 October, 16 Baluch political prisoners were executed in Zahedan, and another Baluch political prisoner was hanged in Hamadan. On 27 October, a Baluch political prisoner was executed in Khorramabad.
On 4 November, a Kurdish political prisoner was executed in the Kurdish city of Saqqez, bring the number of Kurdish political prisoners who have been executed in the past two week to three. Three other Kurdish political prisoners are to be executed in the next few days.
On 26 October, 16 Baluch political prisoners were executed in Zahedan, and another Baluch political prisoner was hanged in Hamadan. On 27 October, a Baluch political prisoner was executed in Khorramabad.
On 4 November, a Kurdish political prisoner was executed in the Kurdish city of Saqqez, bring the number of Kurdish political prisoners who have been executed in the past two week to three. Three other Kurdish political prisoners are to be executed in the next few days.
On November 5, residents of the Kurdish city of Mariwan staged a large demonstration against the recent wave of executions in Iranian Kurdistan. The security forces attacked the demonstrators and arrested several of them.
Today, a large demonstration against the executions broke in Kurdish city of Saqqez. Security forces also stormed the demonstration. There wee no report of injuries or arrests as of yet.
A number of Kurdish political prisoners in Sanandaj, Kermanshan, Ourmiya and Tabas have gone on hunger strike in protest against the recent surge of executions of Kurdish and Baluch political prisoners.
A number of Kurdish political prisoners in Sanandaj, Kermanshan, Ourmiya and Tabas have gone on hunger strike in protest against the recent surge of executions of Kurdish and Baluch political prisoners.
On Tuesday, the chief prosecutor in the city of Zabol in Sistan-Baluchistan province was assassinated after gunmen stopped his car and opened fire. The prosecutor’s driver and body guard was also killed in the attack.
Meanwhile, Iran has executed 35 others in the last ten days who had been charged for non-political crimes.
9 comments:
This bastard regime is trying to divide the Iranian people.
Heavy handed, judicial/ law enforcement responses to recent terror attacks in Iran. Obviously the Iranians are attempting to nip in the bud conditions currently experienced in neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan. Interesting to see how Iran's response fares in relation to these two examples.
Also, Nader are you contending the 35 criminals executed were charged but not convicted by the judicial system? Your wording suggests that.
Khamenei wants to create a civil war in Iran - after 8 years of imposing a terrorist on Iran as president ...
Execution of Kurdish and Baluch political prisoners is a deliberate policy approved at the highest levels of the Iranian Judiciary, the bastion of hard right in the Islamic Republic, and at least not stopped, if not encouraged, by the office of the Supreme Leader. These executions have as much to do with the internal politics of the country. But these shortsighted policies, targeting Sunni Kurdistan and Baluchistan, will push Iran to the brink of sectarian and tribal conflicts.
Calling them a campaign against terrorism misses the point. These executions are as much terrorist acts (some committed at ‘retaliation.’) Calling them lessons learned from Iraq misses the point. These executions follow the examples of how to start and expand sectarian conflicts. They should be stopped now, with no excuses.
ONLY if you will labor to dig into the files and ascertain their crimes!.Well it is very easy to conclude that some sectarian conflict will come out of these happenings just as it is even easier to point at internal politics as the driving force!-THE hardest part is satisfying your readers with tangible proofs and sound judgements!.
there is no baluch political prisoner, they are either Al kaida members or simple drug dealer
i disagree with Mr Uskowi. How can you deal with terrorists? These are the people whjo have been waging war against Iran long before Shah etc. What alternatives one has. They incite violence. They kill people and when they are captured and given pu nishment, they become martyrs. I did not hear that in this blog when Kurdish terrorists were killing Iranian border guards. A good Kurdisk or Baluchi fighter is a dead one. There is no justification for this independence whatever BS we hear from these nomads. Shah introduced reforms and education to these lots. All they did was killing Iranians, erscaping and asking asylum in Sweden. Experience has shown that there is no other way. Iran has other minorities, Azeris, Armenians, Jews, Bakhtiaris, Lors and others. They don't go around killing border guards. The problem is that even if had their own country, they would be creating another Afghanistan next door. Land of no law and drug trafficing. It is like problem of gypsies in Europe!
The real drug dealers and terrorists are the IRGC and khamenei is their boss.
More like 34 years of imposed terrorists on Iran.
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