Mullahs’ hideous crime in Mahabad | ![]() |
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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. Time has come for the United Nations Security
Council to take up the mullahs’ horrific rights record.
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
July 15, 2005 |