Iran is again making headlines over human rights violation as political prisoners who have been released spilled the beans over torture in jail at the hands of a frontrunner politician. Presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi, also the current head of the judiciary has been known to give orders for mass execution of political prisoners in Iran.
Also comes to light the fact that he has been instrumental and stands accused
of having been central to such a massacre that happened in 1988. He is also
known to be a member of a so-called “Death Commission” in Evin and Gohardasht
prisons.
Raisi is a frontrunner in forthcoming Iranian elections, something that
the United Nations, the United States and European Union are vehemently
against. The whole election is being
ridiculed and being terms as a sham.
At the age of 21, Raisi seems to be working as an executioner with a
background of minimal education. He has also been instrumental to work as a
‘fixer’ for the Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini in the 1980s. He is also confirmed to have conducted purges
in provinces such as Lorestan, Kermanshah and Semnan, according to the Iranian
opposition members.
Those who have spilled the beans against Raisi belong to the National
Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). There have been accounts by survivors of
witnessing prisoners being flogged with electric cables in enclosed spaces. An active death commission was in functioning
where Raisi oversaw the execution of many throughout the period of 1980- 1991.
Ali Safavi, an official with the foreign affairs committee of the
Paris-based NCRI has made a media statement, stating that Iran’s future remains
in jeopardy if a person with such a bloody past is allowed to run the
government. ““The expected presidency of a mass murderer like Raisi lays bare
the real and evil nature of medieval theocracy ruling Iran,” he added.
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