More executions in Iran following seemingly rigged trials. Their life stories are a poignant reminder of the unnecessariness of and the devastation produced by these losses. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran writes in an email circular of today (9 May):
Five Hanged in Secret, Twenty Seven others Facing Hangman’s Noose
The campaign United for Iran provides details of and pays tribute to the departed:
Read the full article at United4Iran.com. A further article on the subject is here.4 Kurdish Activists, Prisoner of Conscience Executed
It was with an overwhelming amount of shock and tears that I found early this morning several reports of what sometimes seems like a total unreality: the execution of FIVE prisoners of conscience. I saw the initial report on AP, but the reports made the victims themselves, teacher & writer Farzad Kamangar, civil rights activist Ali Heidarian, Kurdish activist Farhad Vakili, Kurdish activist Shirin Alam-Holi, and prisoner of conscience, Mehdi Eslamian, only second to a bunch of allegations made by the IRI.
Where were there faces? Where were their names, aside from in a long string stuck between two careless dashes? What happened to the lives cut? Who did they leave behind? Were their families notified? Did they kiss their mothers and fathers a too big goodbye? Were they even given the chance?
Beyond sentences and cases, these were people with stories that reached — and will continue to reach — far beyond a bunch of baseless allegations.
Following is a powerful video, "End the Executions", produced by The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran:
Dictum:
Justice is, in this day, bewailing its plight, and Equity groaneth beneath the yoke of oppression. The thick clouds of tyranny have darkened the face of the earth, and enveloped its peoples. (Bahá'u'lláh TOB 84)
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