Erfan Soltani Faces Execution Risk Amid Iran Protest Reports

Human rights organizations warned of the serious risk of his execution.

They reported that Erfan Soltani,

one of those arrested in the ongoing protests in Iran. Erfan Soltani,

twenty- six years old,

was arrested at his home in Fardis, Karaj, and only a few days after his arrest,

without a trial and without access to a lawyer, he was placed on the brink

of execution.

Agents contacted Erfan Soltani’s family and announced Wednesday as

the definite date for carrying out his death sentence and asked the family to come

for a short visit.

do it. Many believe that the Islamic Republic intends to execute Erfan Soltani,

like Mohsen Shekari,

in a very swift move aimed at frightening people and silencing

the protesters’ voices.

Many experts have also described issuing such harsh sentences,

like the death penalty after a short time following arrest,

as a judicial massacre of prisoners,

which not only does not comply with Iran’s international obligations, but is also

considered a clear example of a crime against humanity.

Many videos of the methods and creativity

of the protesters in confronting the repressive forces have been shared online.

One of them shows that the protesters are marking the homes of officials

of the Islamic

Republic.

Kayhan Kalhor, a musician and master kamancheh player,

has supported the protests of the people of Iran and has written that for nearly

four decades my kamancheh has wept over the coffins of my dearest loved ones.

Today I am asking every

musician to join me and entrust their own voice to the people of Iran,

a people who for a lifetime have endured humiliation, discrimination,

and sacrifice at the hands of a

regime they have never chosen and still do not accept.

Now the defenseless youth of Iran are facing a brutal and merciless savagery.

On the other hand, Esmaeil Baghaei,

the spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry of the Islamic Republic,

has spoken of the existence of a communication channel between the Islamic Republic

and Steve Witkoff,

the special envoy of the president of the United States,

and has emphasized that that the Islamic Republic is not seeking war

and any time it is necessary, messages will be exchanged.

This spokesperson has claimed that the Islamic Republic has never left the

negotiating table. Mohammad Sadeghi, an Iranian actor, was arrested in a protest

rally in support of the ongoing protests in Iran. Mohammad Sadeghi, two days before

the protest,

posted on Instagram and called on young Iranians living in European countries to

enter the Islamic Republic’s embassies in their countries of residence without

police permits. The Amir Kabir Newsletter also, by publishing a

photo of a notice from the Dormitory Affairs Office

about the postponement of final exams and the suspension of service at the central

cafeteria of Amirkabir University of Technology from Monday,

has reported this and announced that the coincidence of these measures at the

university level stems from the regime’s intense fear of the spread of the national

revolution and the decisive role of students in it. The repeated

postponement of exams, the closure Student services,

the evacuation and locking of dormitories and monitoring of

university spaces are being enforced strictly while universities have

once again turned into one of the main centers of protest and student resistance in

the country. In another report,

Amir Kabir Newsletter has described the killing of Robina Aminian,

a 23- year- old textile design and clothing student at Shariati College in Tehran,

stating that she was killed by

direct fire from government forces to the head and neck on the eighteenth of Dey.

According to this report,

Robina’s mother,

who had gone to identify her daughter’s body,

stated that her daughter was not the only one among the dead,

and that she had seen hundreds of corpses with her own eyes. According to reports,

after the body of this young student was handed over, the family were forced,

because of the siege by intelligence forces,

to bury Robina Aminian’s body in Kamyaran on their way back to Kermanshah.

At present, the identities of two other killed students have also been confirmed,

Aida Heydari, twenty- one years old,

a student at Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Sadeghiyeh Square,

and Zahra Behloulipour, nineteen years old, a student of Italian language,

were killed on Fatemi Street in Tehran by direct fire from the repressive

forces of the Islamic Republic.

UNICEF, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund,

has also issued a statement expressing its concern about the killing and injuring of

children and

adolescents during the ongoing nationwide protests in Iran,

and has called on Iranian officials, security forces, protesters, families,

and society to take all necessary measures

to protect the lives and the physical and mental health of children.

The security forces must refrain from the use of

unnecessary or disproportionate force,

and under the Convention on the Rights of the Child,

the right to life of all children must be respected and guaranteed.

Seda- ye Bazdashtshodegan- e Iran has

reported that all telephone lines of prisons in Iran to the outside

have been completely cut off since the nineteenth of Dey, and the prisoners And

the detainees have absolutely no way to contact their families

or anyone outside the prison.

The complete cutoff of prisoners’ contact with the outside,

without prior notification and on a nationwide scale, has been implemented and

includes all wards, especially the wards where

political prisoners are held.

Some families say there has been no contact at all, and the lack of information

about the prisoners’ physical and mental condition has increased their worries.

In the upcoming video,

one of the protesters inside Iran talks

about the broadcasting of images of some of those killed in Kahrizak by the Islamic

Republic of Iran Broadcasting, listen and watch. The Islamic Republic, since it no

longer has any

forces and all its forces are exhausted,

is trying to do something to set the people against one another. The question is,

these videos that are now on social media,

they have dumped some of the dead there and their families are standing over them,

crying and so on. In your opinion,

when the“ values people” They kill someone, and they just let them like,

their families come to their side and identify them? I swear to the God you

worship, the body… to the God you worship, they brought Taha Safari’s

body after four days, and they brought it by helicopter. It took two more days,

and in the end it is not even clear what they did with it.

The family stayed by his side until six in the morning,

then at the end they opened this ambulance, and there was nothing in the ambulance.

These people are so vile they will not even hand over a single body.

What does that even mean? They deliberately

cut off the internet so that the real killings they are doing would not get out,

would not be exposed.

Then they staged this whole scenario, and today they are coming, the very today,

probably the twentieth, twenty- first,

until tomorrow they will loosen the internet a little, and on television they will

advertise to bring people out against the people, to set people against people.

I swear no one believes these people anymore. Tehran is in an uproar,

God is my witness. Shiraz…

Today in Shiraz,

in the areas of Atlessi, Afifabad, Mollasadra In the parts of Zand Street,

everyone was on strike. That is all Towards evening, on Amir Kabir Boulevard,

in… in Zerehi…