FLASH
Shkruar nga PamfletiOn April 4, 2026, at dawn, Iranian authorities hanged two members of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in Ghezel Hesar prison: Vahid Bani-Amerian, 34, and Abolhassan Montazer, 67 or 68. They were part of a group of six people sentenced to death on charges of membership in the PMOI with the aim of overthrowing the regime.
Profile of the Executed
Vahid Bani-Amerian, an electrical engineer with a master's degree in management, had been arrested several times since 2017 and had spent about six years in prison.
Abolhassan Montazer, an architectural engineer, was a veteran political prisoner, imprisoned under both the Shah and the Islamic Republic. He had spent more than 11 years in the mullahs' regime's prisons since the 1980s, with further arrests in recent years.
Four other co-defendants, Mohammad Taghavi, Akbar Daneshvargar, Babak Alipour and Pouya Ghobadi, were reportedly executed days earlier, often in secret, while families were denied information about their remains.
Maryam Rajavi's reaction
Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), strongly condemned the execution as a sign of the regime's desperation and terror in the face of growing opposition. She described Bani-Amerian as a courageous fighter on the front lines and Montazeri as a pillar of support for other political prisoners.
Rajavi said that the execution of these “stalwart members of the PMOI” is intended to delay the inevitable overthrow of the regime, but instead increases the anger of the people and the determination of the freedom fighters. She called the martyrs “teachers of patience, honesty and sacrifice” for the younger generation that is rising in successive uprisings.
Maryam Rajavi reiterated the call for a special United Nations session to investigate the wave of political executions and for urgent international measures to protect PMOI prisoners and young people facing the death penalty.
Criticisms of Human Rights Organizations
Human rights groups, including Amnesty International and Iran Human Rights, have criticized the trials as unfair, citing torture, prolonged solitary confinement, and forced confessions. These executions reflect the regime's intensified crackdown on organized opposition amid domestic and regional tensions."
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