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Iranian Resistance urges international
community to condemn mullahs’ hideous crime in Mahabad
15.7.2005
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Iranian Resistance
urges international community to condemn mullahs’
hideous crime in Mahabad, form an international
delegation
Four days of protests, store and school closures in
protest to the torture-murder of a young man
The Iranian Resistance urges the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights and Human Rights
Commission as well as other international human
rights agencies to condemn the hideous murder of a
young man and the subsequent mass arrests in Mahabad
(western Iran). It also calls on them to form a
fact-finding delegation to investigate this horrific
crime. The international community’s silence and
inaction has emboldened the ruling mullahs to
continue and step up their atrocities.
Seyyed Kamal Seyyed Ghader, a.k.a Shwan, a young man
from the town of Mahabad, in the western Iranian
province of Kurdistan, and two other young men were
shot by the State Security Forces (SSF) on Saturday,
July 9. After his arrest, Shwan died under torture.
Subsequently, SSF forces tied his body to a car and
paraded it around town. They handed over the
mutilated body to his family the next day.
As a political activist in Mahabad, Seyyed Ghader
had played an active role in antigovernment
demonstrations, especially in June.
The barbaric crime aroused tremendous anger and
outrage in the city. On Tuesday, July 12, a large
number of Mahabad residents staged a protest against
this odious murder and clashed with the security
forces. Some 50 protesters were arrested during the
clashes.
Acknowledging the protests, the state-controlled
daily Jomhouri Islami wrote, “A number of
counterrevolutionaries provoked a group of young men
to set a few tires ablaze in some streets leading to
the town’s Isteghlal (Independence) square and to
clash with the SSF. A group of
counterrevolutionaries, riding on motorcycles,
attacked the SSF as well.”
Fearing the spread of protests, on Wednesday the
clerical regime deployed several SSF detachments and
intelligence agents and blocked all roads to and
from the town. As dark fell, however, young people
began chanting antigovernment slogans and clashed
with the security forces. A number of SSF agents
were beaten up by the youths and several of their
vehicles were set on fire. Young people controlled
Isteghlal, Bagh Shaygan and Posht-e Tappeh districts
and confronted the SSF with rocks, sticks and
Molotov Cocktails. In an attempt to crush the
protest, Special anti-riot units, fired tear gas
into the crowd and brutally cracked down. Dozens of
people were injured or arrested.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of
Iran
www.ncr-iran.org
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