Iran or Saudi Arabia, or wherever Islam is the de facto law of the land (sharia), you’ll find the horrors of the 7th century in full bloom.
(File photos of Iranian horrors.)
One human rights activist from Iran, interviewed exclusively for Gatestone, who wishes to remain anonymous, stated: “Ever since the rise of ISIS, the regime has become more brazen and has stepped up executions. Before, at least they would not announce them regularly, but now they do. They do not have a care in the world; not many countries are really paying attention to Iran’s human rights much anymore. We have had our own ISIS here for 36 years now.”
Scene from an Execution: Iran Executing Six Sunni Men
Despite prolonged efforts by human rights organizations, six Sunni men were hanged in the early morning of March 4, 2015 at Rajai Shahr Prison in Iran.
Hamed Ahmadi, Kamal Molai, Jamshid Dehghani, Jahangir Dehghani, Sedigh Mohammadi and Seyed Hadi Hosseini all belonged to the Sunni sect of Islam, which is much persecuted by the mostly Shi’a Islamic Republic of Iran.
The sister of Jamshid and Jahangir Dehghani stated to the Roozonline News Agency that the families were unexpectedly summoned by prison authorities for their last visit with their loved ones. “The call was most unexpected; no one had any idea that the executions were to be taking place right away, not even the men themselves. We were told to go to the prison for our very last visit, so we went… The men were in iron cages, with shackled hands and feet… we saw them for 10 minutes only — from afar… We just looked at them, we could not touch them. That was our last visit.”
Their families and supporters had gathered outside the prison in hopes of halting the execution, as they had also done last June. One supporter wrote on her Facebook:
“I was outside prison with the families starting at 1:00 a.m. that night…. Mrs. Dehghani, the mother of two of the men, was praying and crying. Guards were trying to get us all to leave. At dawn, when everyone was getting ready for morning prayers, an ambulance suddenly came out of the prison. It was terrifying. Were the lifeless bodies of the men in that ambulance? The families attacked the ambulance and tried to stop it to see inside. No one believed that they had actually hanged the men already; we thought it was a trick to get us to leave so they could carry out the hangings. Prison authorities told us that the bodies were being taken to the cemetery and that we should just follow the ambulance, he also threatened Mrs. Mohammadi, the mother of one of the men…. We got into our cars and started following the ambulance, but were violently forced out of the car. I was taken for interrogation and Mr. Norizade [a well known human rights activist] was beaten badly.”
Many came and brought us food and blankets, but I wish many more had come so maybe the regime would have not killed those innocent men.”
Sadegh Mohammadi and Seyed Hadi Hosseini both suffered from various psychological illnesses, requiring medications. Their execution had been overturned in 2013 due to their illness, and the courts promised new trials. Instead, their death sentence was confirmed in May 2014.
The other four men — Hamed Ahmadi, Jahangir Dehghani, Jamshid Dehghani and Kamal Molai — were accused of killing a senior Sunni cleric in September 2009, but they claim they were arrested several months before the killing.
