Sir David Amess MP: Iran should be ashamed of its execution record

British politician Sir David Amess has pledged his support to the upcoming Free Iran gathering and called on his colleagues throughout Europe to do the same.

Iran: mullahs’ operatives damage national-cultural heritages

                                           Scenes of the damaged Ass’ad Bakhtiary statue 

Bakhtiary Iranians in the city of Ahvaz, southwest Iran, staged a demonstration on Monday, May 16^th, protesting the damaging of national heritages and symbols of the Constitutional Revolution period [early 1900s] by operatives loyal to the mullahs’ regime and supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

Following the damages inflicted to the statue of Ass’ad Bakhtiary, a legend of the Constitutional Revolution who conquered Tehran, by the gangs and hoodlums of the mullahs’ regime in Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiary Province, the Bakhtiary Iranian community held a demonstration protesting these measures that are considered an insult to Iran’s culture and history. Video footages of the damages inflicted on the Ass’ad Bakhtiary statue has been posted on the Internet, showing the police being present at the scene yet taking no action to prevent this hideous measures.

Iran: amputation hand of a defendant as punishment

Cutting hands and limbs of defendants are still a common punishment in Iran

The medieval punishment of cutting hands and limbs of defendants are still a common means in Iran run by the clerical regime. This practice which has been condemned by all international rules and regulations is most of the times done in public and in front of eyes of innocent bystanders including children and women.   

Recently in the city of Mashhad, north-east Iran the fingers of a defendant in his 30s was amputated, the latest in a line of draconian punishments handed down and carried out in recent weeks.