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With Opposition Protests Continuing, Executes More

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With Opposition Protests Continuing, Executes More Prisoners With Opposition Protests Continuing, Executes More Prisoners Every Thursday since last April, Davoud Rahmanipour traveled to the notorious Evin prisonpot pourri in northern Tehran for a weekly visit with his son, Arash, 19, who was being held there while his lawyer appealed his death sentence.

The elder Mr. Rahmanipour was unsettled #x last Thursday to hear from prison authorities that his son had been transferred to a different prison. His misgivings gave way to shock and grief that afternoon when he heard, on state-run television, that his son had been hanged that day at dawn.

“We are in a devastating psychological and physical situation,GPS Tracker,” Mr. Rahmanipour said Monday in a tearful voice during a telephone interview.

He told Al Jazeera television on Friday that he was refusing to accept messages of condolence. “My son is a martyr for democracy,” he said.

Iran experts have said that the government hastily ordered the executionspot pourri of Arash Rahmanipour and Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, 37, another political prisoner, to intimidate the opposition and to silence the protests that have persisted since the disputed June 12 presidential elections.

With the government’s opponents planning another large demonstration on Feb. 11, the country is bracing for another wave of executions. At least nine other prisoners have been charged with the capital crime of moharebeh, which means waging war against God.

“The executions are clearly a sign of the government’s frustration to end the protests,” said Hadi Ghaemi, the executive director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, a group based in the United States. “There are fears that the government might engage in the kind of cleansing that it did between 1980 and 1988, when it executed more than 3,000 political prisoners.”

Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hussein Moussavi,#x the two leading figures in the opposition, have condemned the hangings and warned that they are aimed at intimidating the opposition.

Statements by a senior cleric, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, who praised the executionspot pourri during the Friday Prayer sermons at Tehran University and called for more, have raised concerns. 相关的主题文章：