IRAN – Reza Rasaei and Habib Deris
30 April 2024:
04/27/2024 – IRAN. Call for urgent action to save Reza Rasaei and Habib Deris, 2 political prisoners facing execution
The Iranian Resistance calls on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Human Rights Council, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran and other human rights bodies, as well as to the European Union and its member states, to take urgent action to save Reza Rasaei and Habib Deris, two political prisoners sentenced to death and on the verge of execution. The absurd death sentence of artist Toomaj Salehi must also be unequivocally annulled, outside of the machinations of the clerical regime.
Reza Rasaei, 34, a fellow ethnic Kurd, was arrested by the IRGC intelligence agency in December 2022 and subjected to brutal torture to extract forced confessions. His case, while he is detained in Dizelabad prison in Kermanshah, has been forwarded to the enforcement office.
Habib Deris, a fellow ethnic Arab, was arrested in February 2019 and, after suffering brutal torture, was sentenced to death along with five other Arab compatriots. Habib was moved to solitary confinement on Wednesday 24 April.
Ali Khamenei, surrounded by internal and external crises, has stepped up crimes and issuing execution orders to divert public attention and prevent the uprisings from gaining momentum.
https://defendashraf.org/iran-call-for-urgent-action-to-save-reza-rasaei-and-habib-deris-two-political-prisoners-facing-execution/
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/128105-jailed-iranian-protester-at-risk-of-imminent-execution-legal-group/
(Source: Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI))
