Civil activist and death sentence abolitionist, Sholeh Pakravan, has just published a post on her visit to the families and survivors of the Sunni prisoners executed on August 2, 2016.

Ms. Pakravan who had been accompanied in this visit by Ms. Shahnaz Akmali, mother of Mostafa Karimbeigi who was killed in the course of the 2009 uprising, wrote in her post:

As I was sitting beside orphaned children the oldest of whom was only 10, I looked around myself… The house was like that house in a village (in Sistan-o Baluchistan) which presidential deputy Shahindokht Mollaverdi said all of their men had been executed. Government officials tried to deny this tragic news, but now, I can attest to the fact that I went to a house all of whose men had been executed. Only two little boys, 2 and 4, have survived….

The 26 men who were recently executed left behind 13 young wives…

These women were wives of Arash, Yavar, Mohammad, Amjad, Kaveh, Shahram, Shahoo, Kayvan, etc. These are survivors of the mass executions, getting old after the deaths of their loved ones…