This hollow maneuver is taking place while according to reliable information, a large number of political prisoners have been sent before the firing squad in recent months. Mehrdad Kalani, a member of the People's Mojahedin, and Ahmad Bakhtari, an activist of the Fedai'i Guerrillas, were executed on June 22 in Tehran's Evin prison.
Before his execution, in a letter secretly sent to Prof. Maurice D. Copithorne, UNHRC Special Representative on Iran, Mr. Kalani wrote that at least 11 political prisoners had been secretly executed and another group sentenced to death.
Such desperate efforts on behalf of the mullahs' regime is only to divert public attention from the blatant violations of human rights and the unprecedented escalation of suppression in the society.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris
August 1, 1996
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