As six young Iranians now await execution in what is chillingly known as the “Ekbatan Case,” the Iranian regime once again reveals its brutal commitment to suppressing dissent.
Their names – Milad Armon, Alireza Kafaei, Amir Mohammad Khosh Ighbal, Navid Najaran, Hossein Nemati, and Alireza Baramarz Pournak – will likely vanish into the abyss if the Islamic Republic of Iran has its way.
Their “crime”? Taking part in a movement that demanded nothing more than dignity and the right to a voice. In the “Woman Life Freedom” movement of 2022, sparked by the tragic killing of Mahsa Amini, these young Iranians dared to imagine a future free from the stranglehold of a regime that views every breath of liberty as a mortal threat.
The Islamic Republic’s unyielding response to these protests is as strategic as it is ruthless. Arrested, paraded before courts notorious for rubber-stamping sentences of death, and confined in some of Iran’s most infamous prisons, these young men and women are offered no justice. Trials are mere formalities, judgments predetermined, and the sentences – death by hanging – are delivered without a hint of remorse.
As the executions loom, one might expect an outcry from global champions of human rights and a surge of outrage from those who claim to stand with the oppressed. But here lies the insidious hypocrisy of the modern-day liberal Left.
Source: The Jerusalem Post