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Risikerer å bli henrettet når som helst
Rettssaken der de ble dømt til døden, varte i kun 5 minutter. Nå kan de to mennene bli henrettet når som helst.
Publisert:
20. Mar 2025, kl. 12:35
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Sist oppdatert:
27. Mar 2025, kl. 10:16
Behrouz Ehsani (69) og Mehdi Hassani (48) har den siste tiden blitt nektet kontakt med familie og venner, noe som gjør at de frykter at en henrettelse er nært forestående.
Dette må forhindres! Signer aksjonen og krev at dødsstraffene mot de to iranske mennene umiddelbart oppheves!
Torturert
I august 2024 ble Behrouz og Mehdi dømt til døden etter en svært urettferdig rettssak. Selve rettssaken tok bare fem minutter, og ingen av dem fikk lov til å ta ordet.
De to mennene fikk ikke tilgang på advokat før i ukene før rettssaken kom opp. Da hadde de sittet arrestert i nesten to år. De skal ha blitt utsatt for tortur i fengselet i form av slag og spark, og de har blitt satt på isolasjonscelle i lengre perioder.
Mehdi satt på isolasjon i hele seks måneder etter arrestasjonen, og myndighetene prøvde å tvinge ham til en "tilståelse". Han ble truet med at han ville bli pisket og henrettet, og at familiemedlemmer ville bli arrestert og skadet.
Til tross for torturen og truslene vegret han seg mot å tilstå forbrytelser han ikke hadde begått.
De to mennene ble dømt til døden for blant annet "væpnet opprør mot staten" i forbindelse med deres påståtte støtte til en forbudt opposisjonsgruppe.
Dødsdommene ble senere opprettholdt av Høyesterett.
"Henrettes hver dag"
I et brev fra Behrouz oppfordres det internasjonale samfunnet til å stå opp mot regimet i Iran for å få slutt på deres omfattende bruk av dødsstraff.
Amnesty krever at iranske myndigheter:
- umiddelbart opphever dødsdommene mot Behrouz Ehsani og Mehdi Hassani og løslater dem fra fengsel.
- i påvente av løslatelse gir dem tilgang til sine familier og advokater etter eget ønske.
- undersøker deres anklager om tortur og stiller de ansvarlige til ansvar i rettferdige rettsaker uten bruk av dødsstraff.
Signaturene sendes til lederen for det iranske rettsvesenet, Mohseni Ejei.
Head of judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei
c/o Embassy of Iran to the United Nations, Chemin du Petit-Saconnex 28, 1209 Geneva, Switzerland
c/o Embassy of Iran to the United Nations, Chemin du Petit-Saconnex 28, 1209 Geneva, Switzerland
Dear Mr Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei,
On 23 February 2025, the lawyers of Behrouz Ehsani, 69, and Mehdi Hassani, 48, learned that Branch Nine of the Supreme Court has rejected their request for a judicial review of their case, placing them at imminent risk of execution. In the past weeks, the authorities have denied them contact with their families, raising fears among relatives that they may be planning to carry out their executions in secret.
Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani were tried jointly in a five-minute trial on 10 August 2024 in grossly unfair proceedings before Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. They were denied access to their lawyers for nearly two years, from the time of arrest until weeks before trial. Their torture allegations were not investigated; they were not allowed to speak during their trial; and they were denied trial by an independent, competent and impartial tribunal. On 15 September 2024, they were sentenced to death on charges of “armed rebellion against the state” (baghi), “enmity against God” (moharebeh) and “corruption on earth” (efsad-e fel-arz) in relation to their alleged support of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), a banned opposition group. On 7 January 2025, the authorities notified their lawyers that their convictions and death sentences had been upheld by the Supreme Court.
Ministry of Intelligence agents arrested Behrouz Ehsani on 28 November 2022 in Tehran and Mehdi Hassani on 9 September 2022 in Zanjan province. According to informed sources, agents denied them contact with their families, interrogated them without lawyers present and subjected them to torture and other ill-treatment, including beatings and prolonged solitary confinement, to extract self-incriminating statements. Agents held Behrouz Ehsani in solitary confinement for 50 days in section 240 of Tehran’s Evin prison and pressured him to make forced “confessions” under torture and other ill-treatment, including through threats to flog and execute him and arrest and otherwise harm his family. He refused to make forced “confessions”. He was then moved to Section 209 for 75 days before being moved to a general ward alongside other prisoners. According to an informed source, for six months following arrest, agents held Mehdi Hassani in solitary confinement and forced him to write self-incriminating statements under torture and other ill-treatment, including beatings and threats to harm his family. The informed source told Amnesty International that, in these written statements, Mehdi Hassani specified that he was being forced to write them under torture and other ill-treatment.
I urge you to immediately halt any plans to execute Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani, quash their convictions and sentences and release them as their detention is arbitrary due to severely grave violations of their fair trial rights. I further urge you to grant them immediate access to their families, independently chosen lawyers and to any adequate medical care they may need; and protect them from further torture and other ill-treatment and investigate their torture allegations, bringing anyone found responsible to justice in fair trials without resort to the death penalty. Finally, I urge you to immediately establish an official moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty.
Yours sincerely,