Molavi Abdolhamid: The executions were painful, the situation is fundamentally flawed

Mawlavi Abdolhamid: The executions were painful; the foundation is flawed.

Mawlavi Abdolhamid, the influential leader of Iran’s Sunnis, protested the execution of three accused protesters in the Isfahan House case and the existing discriminations in the constitution of the Islamic Republic, stating that the foundation is flawed.

Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi, the Sunni Imam of Zahedan, in his weekly sermon on Friday, May 19, referred to the execution of Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi, and Saeed Yaghoubi, which had been carried out a few hours earlier.

Mawlavi Abdolhamid emphasized that forced confessions from defendants and prisoners in Iran have become a fundamental issue, adding that on one hand, judicial and security officials said they confessed and admitted, while on the other hand, they sent messages from inside prison that they confessed under duress.

He went on to describe the execution of the accused in the Isfahan House case as painful and said that people have lost their trust in such confessions.