Protests In Afghanistan Against Recent Executions In Iran

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(Radio Zamaneh) -- Hundreds of people in the city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan demonstrated in protest to execution of Iranian and Afghan prisoners by the Islamic Republic. The demonstrators marched toward Iranian Consulate in Jalalabad and the police failed to stop them from approaching the building.

Demonstrators reportedly beat on the doors of the Consulate and burned images of ruling cleric figures of Iran.

They also carried images of the five Iranian political prisoners that were executed in Iran last Sunday and expressed support for Iranian political prisoners.

The demonstrators called for an end to executions in Iran and chanted “Death to despotism, in Kabul and in Tehran!”

Afghanistan Coalition Party organized the demonstration and issued a statement in support of the families of the executed political prisoners in Iran and condemned Islamic Republic system’s oppressive policies.

This is the fifth demonstration in Afghanistan against executions in Iran. The earlier demonstrations however were concentrated on execution of Afghan prisoners in Iran.

Last month demonstrators protested in front of Iranian embassy in Kabul condemning mistreatment of Afghan residents of Iran. An effigy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was burned during these protests and Islamic Republic reacted to the events by summoning Afghanistan charge d'affaires to Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

A number of Afghanistan members of Parliament maintain that tens of Afghan citizens have been executed in Iran.

According to a report from an Afghan panel that travelled to Iran to inspect situation of Afghan immigrants in Iran, there are currently 5600 Afghan prisoners in Iran mostly for drug charges and close to three thousand of them are sentenced to execution.