ژورنال سایت خبری سیاسی ژورنال
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A group of Social Security retirees in Gilan gathered on Saturday, 11 October, in front of the organisation’s provincial headquarters in Rasht, chanting slogans including “No to executions.” In recent months, at protests held by retirees across the country, demonstrators have explicitly opposed the death penalty and called for the release of those sentenced to death, including Sharifeh Mohammadi. The retirees have stressed that threats and executions will no longer deter them from demanding their rights.
The appearance of anti-execution slogans at street protests by different sections of society carries special significance at a time when the desperate Islamic Republic has turned increasingly to executions. These slogans express the public’s determination to say “no” to this state crime and to stop the Islamic Republic’s killing machine.
Imagine if not only retirees in Rasht and Khuzestan, but demonstrators in every city across Iran, were to chant “No to executions,” and such actions spread nationwide – would the regime be able to continue executing on such a scale?
If diverse groups of people were to express, ever more openly, their opposition to the death penalty and state killings during protests against discrimination, corruption and injustice, the climate of fear the Islamic Republic seeks to create through its mass executions would collapse. The regime wants to accustom us to its daily state killings and keep society paralysed by terror. But if we declare our opposition to executions every day and at every protest, we will not only block the regime’s inhuman aims, but also make resistance against the rulers’ crimes stronger and more effective.
The slogan “No to executions” is both a cry of pain and a call of hope; it is the voice of mothers whose children have been taken from them, of workers deprived of bread and freedom, and of a generation that refuses to accept death as the state’s answer to dissent. To repeat this slogan is not merely to reject an unjust punishment – it is to affirm the human right to life and dignity. If this cry resounds across the country, one can hope that one day Iran will be freed from the shadow of death, and humanity will triumph over fear.
Editor: Patty Debonitas
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