Nasrollah ShanbeZahi has been executed by hanging in public on Monday (19-02-2007; 10:00 AM) at local time in capital of Balochistan, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

An Iranian revolutionary court in Balochistan accused Mr. Shanbezhai a day after the last week's bombing that killed 11 members of The Elite Revolutionary Guards who are not accountable to any other authorities but are directly under the command of Ayotollah Khameneyi.

A Baloch nationalist resistance group known as “People's Resistance Movement of Iran (PRMI)” has claimed the responsibility for the last Wednesday's (14 February 2007) bombing has been fighting with the rgime’s military forces for years since their groups members were kept in jail and hanged in public in the early summer of this year.

In a press release PRMI communicated "we only act in self-defence and whenever the Iranian regime kills an innocent Iranian, we act in accordance to all United Nations conventions that allow people and nations to defend themselves against aggression and genocide. We strive to force the Iranian regime to abandon its brutal policies against the Baloch people and other Iranian citizens. We campaign to stop discrimination, brutality, injustice, corruption and ethnic cleansing in Iran."

It is widely known that there are no civil courts or defence lawyers available in Iran for any defendant to prove his innocence, it was also unfortunately the case for Mr. Shanbezhai too. He has been beaten, tortured and forced by Iranian secret police to read a written confession of guilt on TV (see attached photograph).

According to local people Mr. Shanbezhai was innocent but his only crime was that he was a relative of one of the members of PRMI movement.

According to the Iranian official news agencies the secret police have rounded up more then 65 Baloch people allegedly in connection to the PRMI organisation. In fact these were the people mostly youngs who had curiously gathered at the seen taking photos with their mobile phones.
Considering the Iranian regime's human rights violations we strongly believe these people do not get a faire trail and independent defense lawyer.
 

Balochistan People Party condemns this show trail and execution by hanging of Nasrollah Shanbehzai and appeals to the international community specially the security council of the United Nations:

1-To put diplomatic pressure on the Iranian state to stop human rights violations in Balochistan and release all political prisoners including the recent arrested Baloch people, to prevent a tragic outcome and stop its ideological war on Sunni Baloch and Baloch people’s national genocide.

2-In order to highlight the situation and suffering of Baloch people in Iran, we request the international Human Right Organisations to send a fact finding delegation to Balochistan.

Nasser Boladai, Spokesperson for Balochistan People Party


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