IRAN. RIGHTS GROUP URGES EU TO PRESSURE IRAN TO STOP EXECUTION

a Tehran-based group, Human Rights Activists in Iran, called on the European Union to pressure Iran to suspend the imminent execution of a long-time political prisoner.
In a letter to the Austrian embassy in Tehran, the group said that the lives of seven political prisoners were in danger after they were issued death sentences.
The letter highlighted the case of Valiollah Feyz-Mahdavi, a 28-year-old member of Iran’s main opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI).
Feyz-Mahdavi was arrested in 2001 for sympathizing with the PMOI and has endured torture in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran.
“In the last measure of the mullahs' regime, prisoner Vali Ollah Feiz Mahdavi, was forced to sign the commandment to his execution in Gohar Dasht Prison in Karaj, which was put into place by the Judgment Enforcement of the Court of Justice and brought to him by Ali Mohammadi, the director of the Gohar Dasht, Karaj Prison”, the group said, adding that Feyz-Mahdavi had been scheduled to be executed on May 15.
The group called on the EU Presidency to refer the case to the European Parliament so that pressure could be put on Tehran to prevent the execution.