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Fight to Roll Back the Death Sentences! Tudeh Party of Iran March 3, 2010 http://www.tudehpartyiran.org/detail.asp?id=1011 From Tudeh News No. 262 Feb-Mar 2010
The prosecution has considered this twenty year old member of Mir Hossein Mousavi campaign team in the provincial city of Damghan to be waging war against God based on Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi's views and sentenced him to death. Mohammad Amin Valian was arrested on Ashura [a holy mourning day in Shiite Islam] protest rallies and the judiciary officials relying on just one picture and unfounded claims by Makarem Shirazi have found him guilty and condemned him to death. The death sentence for this student activist, close to the events leading to the [National Celebrations of] the last Wednesday of the Iranian calendar, is a calculated move by the reaction and the coup government to sow fear in the youth and ward off the protest actions on this day of national tradition. In addition to the inhumane death sentence for Mohammad Amin Valian, a number of other compatriots of ours are also facing death penalty only because of their political views. One of those with a serious possibility of carrying out a death sentence is Shirin Alam Houei. Furthermore, tens of other Kurdish political and social activists in various prisons in the country are in danger of execution. Meanwhile, coercion, threat, and arrest of political, civil, and trade union activists continues in full force. The continued incarceration of a number of Mourning Mothers and their supporters, heavy sentences for the student activists, incarceration of film director Jafar Panahi on unwarranted pretexts, physical threats against some of the incarcerated activists like Mansour Osaloo, Ahmad Zeid Abadi, the arrests in the last 48 hours, and the summons of two members of Tehran “Vahed” Bus Workers Syndicate are among the tactics used by the putschists to contain and suppress the popular movement. The reactionaries should not be allowed to reach their ominous goals through inhumane death sentences and increased pressures on the political prisoners. Let us fight together to put an end to the death penalty and end the atmosphere of terror and blackmail. The call to immediate release of all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience and an end to suppression are of top priority for the popular movement in current critical moment! Tudeh Party of Iran strongly condemns the death sentences for the incarcerated activists and political prisoners irrespective of their viewpoints and fights against the death penalty! March 3, 2010 |
Following the
recent moves by the ruling reaction and their show trials, the Islamic
Revolution prosecutor announced that the sentence to execute Mohammad Amin
Valian, a member of the central council of Islamic Association of Damghan
University, has been ratified.