The interrogator told my husband: to preserve the Establishment we need some scapegoats!

Tehran, Jan. 10, 2011
After the unannounced execution of Ali Saremi, political prisoner and a supporter of PMOI there is a great concern that the religious fascism ruling Iran would unnoticeably hang Jafar Kazemi whose decree of execution has been sent to the Branch for Execution of Decrees.
Kazami is accused of ‘Moharebeh by cooperating and having connection with PMOI and propagation against the establishment’.
Mr. Kazami’s spouse, Roodabeh Akbari in her interview with Committee of Reporters of Human Rihgts said that neither she nor his lawyer were able to do anything: “…for several times my request to see the prosecutor was denied…at the end by one of Evin’s soldiers I was informed that my husband’s sentence has been sent to the Branch for Execution of Decrees…”
Mrs. Akbari has formerly written a letter to UN Secretary General asking for help to rescue his husband. In some part of this letter she has written: “the interrogator has told my husband: ‘we need some scapegoats to preserve the Establishment (clerical dictatorship) and one of them is you’. They wanted him to have an interview about Ashura (Uprising 2009) but he opposed the act because he has been arrested three months before Ashura! They told him that if he doesn’t accept they will torture his family in front of his eyes and ‘we will chop your wife into pieces in front of you’, but he still resisted any interview. Then they told him that he will be executed for sure”.
Mrs. Akbari pointed to her last visit and said that Mr. Kazemi has had good spirit and he has told her: “they don’t tell the prisoner (that they are taking him away to execute), just one night before the execution they transfer the prisoner to solitary cells in silence and then they execute him”.”
Mr. Kazemi has been tried accused of participating in Ashura Uprising of 2009 but he was arrested on Sep. 18, 2009. He was under pressure and torture to participate in compulsory TV interviews but he resisted and was then condemned to death along with 6 other political prisoners all supporters of PMOI.
Mrs. Akbari said: “he was not allowed to meet with his lawyer, even in the court they prevented them to talk to each other. He was arrested that day with four others and judge Moghiseh said that they are all related together while they weren’t and he addressed my husband as accused No. 1. In half an hour the court investigated all four cases. We were not allowed to be present in the court and all this time I was sitting in the corridor...The (so-called) judge didn’t permit my husband to talk and told him that he should have been executed at 1980s (Mr. Kazemi was a political prisoner then too); ‘that was a mistake but this time I will not let you to be rescued’…I referred to the court several times…but they shouted ‘Monafegh’ (hypocrite the name regime calls PMOI members) at me and threw me out of the court…Mrs. Qhanavi his lawyer tried a lot and first she was hopeful because the file was empty and had no documents in it. So we were hopeful that the country’s Supreme Court would nullify the decree. But eventually on July 28, 2010 the court endorsed the decree…”
Jafar Kazemi is 47 and has two children.