Execution of Isfahan House Case Defendants This Morning

This morning, the defendants in the case known as the Isfahan House were executed.

Public support in Iran and abroad, multiple requests from the international community, and warnings from human rights lawyers and judicial attorneys to the judiciary regarding the cancellation of the execution order for the defendants in the case known as the Isfahan House could not prevent the execution of the innocent defendants.

This Friday morning, corresponding to 29 Ordibehesht, the judicial system of the Islamic Republic carried out the execution orders for Saeed Yaghoobi, Majid Kazemi, and Saleh Mirhashemi. While the judicial system labeled them as terrorists in justifying their executions, it once again claimed that these three individuals played a role in the killing of three military and security officials of the Islamic Republic, despite the fact that many documents in this case were forged and fabricated.

Saeed Yaghoobi, Majid Kazemi, and Saleh Mirhashemi did not accept the charges against them even in forced confessions that were also broadcast in the media. They even sent a handwritten letter from the prison library addressed to the Iranian people asking them to prevent their execution, a letter that was widely reflected on social media networks, prompting the people of Isfahan to unite and gather in front of Dastgerd Prison to demand the cancellation of the execution order. However, the Islamic Republic, without paying attention to warnings from the international community, alerts from human rights lawyers and judicial attorneys, and public protests, carried out their execution orders.

The executions by the Islamic Republic government have provoked the reactions of people around the world and human rights organizations. Amnesty International also reported in its latest annual reports an 83 percent increase in executions of individuals in 2022 by the judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

However, these executions have not been able to extinguish the fire of anger and revolution among the people; rather, people continue to chant slogans against the Islamic Republic regime at night, and courageous women also appear without mandatory hijab in the streets as a sign of protest.