The state-run newspapers had previously announced the executions of 25 persons in the northeastern province of Khorassan (Ettela'at, October 8). Another person was publicly hanged in Ahwaz, southwestern Iran, and two dissident Kurds were executed in the northwestern city of Oroumieh on October 24.
Also in the past month, Rev. Mohammad Baqer Yousefi, a Christian priest, was murdered in the northern Iranian city of Qa'emshahr by the regime's agents.
The number of those executed since the beginning of October thus amounts to at least 36 persons. Obviously, the actual figure is much higher in light of the executions carried out secretly.
During the same period, two Iranian dissident Kurds were assassinated in the cities of Sulaymania and Halabjeh in the Iraqi Kurdistan and another Iranian dissident was killed by the mullahs' exported terrorists in Pakistan. Also this month, 7 Iranian Kurds in the Iraqi Kurdistan and another Iranian dissident in Pakistan were abducted and transferred to Iran.
Mr. Massoud Rajavi, the President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran described such unprecedented rise in the number of executions as an indication of the regime's frustration and despair in the face of the Iranian people and Resistance and a bid to terrorize the public. He drew the attention of international human rights organizations and the UNHRC Special Representative, Prof. Maurice Copithorne to this marked increase in the violations of human rights in Iran.
Mr. Rajavi called on the current session of the U.N. General Assembly to be decisive in condemnation of the mullahs' regime and refer the problem of the mullah's human rights abuses and export of terrorism to the Security Council of the adoption of binding measures and international punishments.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris
November 14, 1996
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