بلوچستانءِ اُستمانءِ گــَل
Balochistan People’s Party
حزب مردم بلوچستان		  
Iranian regime executed two Sunni Baloch religious teachers

PRESS RELEASE
11-04-2008

In early morning of 9th April 2008 the Iranian regime executed two religious teachers in Dozaap (Zahedan) in Balochistan capital; the two Baloch, Moulavi Mohammad Yousuf Sohrabi and Moulavi Abdul Qoddoos Mollazehi were forced to confession of guilt on television. The Iranian regime broadcast their false confessions in three successive nights to justify this execution.

These religious teachers had been arrested in December 2007 in city of Pahra (Iransharh) in southern Balochistan on the basis of their religious beliefs. The regime accused them of cooperating with People's Resistance Movement of Iran (PRMI), foreign countries and shedding the blood of Persian Shia nation in Iran. While it’s widely known that it is this Shia regime who committing atrocities against Baloch and other Sunni population of Iran.

Some significant examples of anti-Sunni measures in Iran.

- Systematic massacre of Sunni clerics
- Regularly broadcasting anti-Sunni film, news and publishing book
- Baloch and other Sunni constitutionally excluded from all high government positions (Article 115 of Islamic Republic of Iran Constitution)
- Not only does Tehran and other major Iranian cities remain without a Sunni mosque, but after the 1978-1979 revolution Sunni mosques in Mashhad, Salmas, and Shahinzadeh were destroyed, and those in Shiraz, Orumieh, Sanadaj, Saqqez, and Miyandoab were closed.

Balochistan Peoples Party strongly condemns the inhuman action of the Shia regime of Iran against Baloch nation and other religious minorities. We appeal to human rights organizations and the international community to pressurize the Iranian fundamentalist regime to stop harassing, intimidating, arresting and killing of religious leaders.

Nasser Boladai
Spokesperson for Balochistan People's Party
 

Balochistan People’s Party, P.O.Box 13022, 103 01 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel: +46 739343724, Fax: +46 8 43 75 97 37 www.ostomaan.org ; www.balochpeople.org