NEWSDESK, — The coordination of Kurdistan’s Free Life Party (PJAK) released a statement pointing to the predicament of political prisoners held in the Iranian prisons.
The Islamic Regime of Iran wants to threaten and terrorise the masses of people and the dissent individuals, remarked the statement.
The statement points to death sentences handed down to numbers of political and civil activists, particularly the Kurdish activists, who are currently held in degrading situations in the Iranian prisons and subjected to torture and persecutions.
In response to such maltreatments of the prisoners of conscious, outlined the statement, the Kurdish people should stand up for them amid mounting of various types of campaigns.
The full statement reads as follow:
As it is known, the Islamic Republic of Iran from its outset has tried to threaten the people through the imposition of prison to forestall any kind of dissatisfaction and impose the already-determined destiny upon the society. In case of any discontent, they will eliminate the dissents under various masquerades and wipe the prisons from the prisoners at the same time. Similar approach has been widely maintained vis-a-vis our party PJAK since the last few years to date. Hundreds of civil and political individuals have been imprisoned for their political views or activism and they are subject to daily degradation; severe misconducts, and life-threatening tortures.
A considerable number of political prisoners—mainly Kurdish—are on the death row, among them is Reza Mewlazade from Selmas, born in 1989, and dozen of more who are subject to suspended situation and unknown future. There is rumour that they might have been killed under tortures. A considerable number of prisoners such as Zeneb Celaliyan, Mensur Mehmudi, Behruz Alaxani, Shakir Baqi, Remezan Ehmed, Hebibulla Gulperipur and dozens more have been subjected to serious physical and health problem due to harsh and callous treatments. They are at critical health conditions now. In the meantime civil and political prisoners are also subject to psychological tortures and moral degradation while transferred to solitary confinements.
Without a doubt the accomplishment of such policies, particularly the persisting arrests of Kurdish civil and political activists, reflects the state’s denial of the rights of Kurds and its antagonism toward them. This occurs while the Kurdish issue and the illegitimacy of the anti-Kurdish policies have been affirmed by the generators of this issue. Nevertheless, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been pressing on such policies toward the Kurds and is not prepared to take a single positive step to solve this issue. Contrariwise, with the application of such policies along with the nuisance of prison and terror, it tries to mask the reality of this issue.
This is while the talks of Kurdish issue have resurfaced in the regional and international domains, and as a corollary of relentless struggle the Kurdish people obtained sombre achievements. The Islamic Republic’s insistence on antagonism and hostility toward the Kurds and its refusal to move toward solving it is completely meaningless and inacceptable. Particularly the maintenance of such treatments of Kurdish political prisoners will not longer be tolerated by the Kurdish people.
Based on this, the Islamic Republic should not only refrain from so doing, but the release of Kurdish civil and political activists is a topic that should come to the surface and the regime’s planning while ultimately materialised.
Within this context, we as PJAK call upon our nation from all over grand Kurdistan, in particular East Kurdistan to mount their campaigns in various forms to release all political prisoners and to bring an end to the policy of prison.