Pressure Iran to stop executions

President Ahmadinejad is intensifying his repression of the Baluch minority, with 19 campaigners executed since last month


Peter Tatchell
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 22 July 2009 21.00 BST

Three more Baluch activists are due to be executed in Iran in the next few days, according to Ebrahim Hamidi, chief justice of Sistan and Baluchistan province.
Already, 19 Baluch political prisoners have been hanged since last month's fraudulent presidential election.

All were sent to the gallows after short, summary trials behind closed doors, without having access to defence lawyers and without any right to call witnesses or appeal the death sentences.
On one day last week, 14 July, the government of Iran executed 13 members of its Baluch ethnic minority. They were hanged by the barbaric slow strangulation method, which is endorsed by the country's dictator, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


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