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Iranian Opposition Leader Feyz-Mahdav On Verge of Execution

by David Roknich
“I am concerned over reports noting that he was not granted access to a lawyer (South Carolina is not so clean on this issue either!) during his trial and as such his trial did not meet international standards for fair trial, as laid down by Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to which Iran is a State Party”, according to former Norwegian P.M. Kjell Magne Bondevik.
certainly, a nuclear bunker buster attack will not solve this problem - not anymore than it would solve the lack of legal representation for those brought to trial in Strom Thurmond's old stronghold in South Carolina where defendants are routinely sentenced for felonies without access to legal council - but their fate is not nearly as ugly as their counterparts in Iran, who are routinely hanged or mutilated as punishment for their crimes.
It is also important to note that Feyz-Mahdavi was taken prisoner under the regime of alledgedly "liberal" front man Khatami alonfg with many other student dissidents who were changed with insulting the US backed leader, who I contend was nothing more than a CIA infiltrator, as are many of today's "Ayatollahs". It is well know that Iran is heavily infiltrated on both sides of it's policital spectrum - the only people you can trust seem to end up with a noose around their necks. And now for the story from Iran Focus
- editor
Former Norwegian PM Urges Iran not to Hang Dissident
London, Apr. 07 – Former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik has appealed to the Iranian government not to go ahead as planned with the execution of a long-time political prisoner.

Valiollah Feyz-Mahdavi, a 28-year-old member of Iran’s main opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), has been officially informed that his execution sentence will be carried out on May 16, according to his relatives in Iran.

Bondevik, who currently heads the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights, said that Feyz-Mahdavi was believed to be at “imminent danger” of execution.

Bondevik said that he was “deeply concerned” by the high number of executions in Iran and urged Tehran to refrain from executing Feyz-Mahdavi.

Feyz-Mahdavi was arrested in 2001 for sympathising with the PMOI and tortured in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran.

His execution would be the second such known political execution in the past two months. Another PMOI member, Hojjat Zamani, a political prisoner in Iran since 2001, was hanged in Gohardasht Prison on February 7. The regime applied severe psychological torture on Zamani, 31, to break his morale and compel him to express remorse and surrender.

Bondevik also expressed concern at the overall human rights situation in Iran.

He highlighted the case of Fatemeh Haghighat-Pajouh who is once again on death row after originally having her death sentence suspended.

Haghighat-Pajouh was sentenced to death for the murder of her husband. She alleged that her husband was a drug addict and had tried to rape her daughter, 15, from a previous marriage, according to Amnesty International.


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§which editor
by roknich
the editor mentioned above is NOT an editor at indybay - and btw, I have to go back and clean up some errors in this rush post:) hope you'll forgive, due to the urgency of the situation, and let's hope thie impending doom of Feyz-Mahdav does not fuel the fire in "occupied" Washington DC, where there are rumblings about the possible use of nuclear weapons to "solve" the problem in Iran. Time to vote in an impeachment congress - but that's another issue.
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