May 10, 2010
GVF — Following the unjust and sudden execution of five Iranians in Evin prison on Sunday morning, former prime minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi has issued a statement slamming the judiciary’s conduct.
The statement published on his official Kaleme website is as follows:
The sudden execution of five of the country’s citizens—without providing the people with any illuminating explanation about their charges, their prosecution proceedings or the court trials—is similar to the unjust proceedings that have led to shocking sentences being handed down to a great number of our country’s serving men and women and our dear fellow citizens.
When the judiciary drifts away from protecting the oppressed to supporting those in power, it is difficult to prevent the people from passing the judgement that the judicial rulings were unjust. How is it that today, the judicial courts grant amnesty to those who ordered and perpetrated the crimes in Kahrizak prison, in [Tehran] University dormitory and in the Sobhan apartment complex as well those who committed the crimes on 15 and 12 June and on Ashura [27 December], while they declare massive corruption cases close without even looking into them and then all of a sudden and before the month of Khordad [May-June], the month of wisdom and seeking justice, they hang five people under a cloud of suspicion? Is this the divine justice that we were seeking?
