On Friday, May 13, 2022, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) held a press conference in Paris, making public for the first time the hitherto undisclosed names of over 33,000 officials, interrogators, torturers, and executioners in Iran’s Prisons Organization and over 22,000 of their pictures.
Excerpt of this press conference is as follows:
During the conference, Behzad Naziri, NCRI’s representative to international organizations, referred to the ongoing protests across Iran and the regime’s systematic crackdown on dissidents. He pointed to the recent demonstrations in dozens of Iranian cities over the country’s worsening economic situation and the nationwide protests by teachers.
Naziri said that Iran’s ruling theocracy has arrested “hundreds of young people during the recent protests, as well as dozens of teachers.” He underlined that these arrests are part of the regime’s futile efforts to prevent protests from spreading across the country.
Naziri presented a video showing the names of more than 33,000 regime prison officials, including top authorities, interrogators, intelligence agents, executioners, guards, and mercenaries. He also presented the pictures obtained from inside Iran by the NCRI’s main constituent, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) of many of these same individuals.
Mr. Naziri was joined by Ali Safavi from the NCRI’s Foreign Affairs Committee. In his remarks, Safavi pointed out the dreadful situation in Iranian prisons. He presented over one hundred pictures of overcrowded cells in 23 out of 31 provinces across the country obtained by the MEK.
Safavi explained the dire conditions of prisoners, whom, he said, were being denied their fundamental rights. He presented documents that showed that on average the number of actual prisoners was three to four times greater than the officially announced capacity of each prison. “As you see in the pictures, they are forced to sleep like sardines and are deprived of their basic needs,” Safavi said.
Reacting to the Iranian Resistance’s recent revelations of the torturers’ names, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the NCRI’s President-elect, said: “The shocking documents about prison conditions in Iran under the mullahs are a glimpse of the atrocities committed by a regime which has executed 120,000 political prisoners and murdered thousands more protesters in the past four decades.”
Mrs. Rajavi added: “The formation of a UN fact-finding mission to inspect Iran’s prisons is imperative. The dossier on the crimes of the ruling religious fascism must be referred to the UN Security Council. Its leaders, especially Khamenei and Raisi, must face justice”
Mrs. Rajavi emphasized: “Inaction vis-à-vis the crimes of a regime, which is a disgraceful stain on contemporary humanity, is tantamount to rejecting the values upon which the UN and the European Union have been founded and for which tens of millions of people have sacrificed their lives.”
