Iran:'Their voices are trapped behind prison walls' [Including Photos]

Protest in solidarity with the families of those executed in Iran, hunger strikers next 

to a poster of some of those killed in the 1988 mass executions

Protesters launched three-day 'hunger strike' outside Downing Street in anger over mass executions in Iran

• Iranian protesters launched three-day 'hunger strike' outside Downing St • Urged government to condemn hangings of up to 30 prisoners this week • Relatives called to Iranian prison to say last goodbye were instead told to go straight to the morgue when they arrived, say reports • Comes on the anniversary of executions of some 30,000 prisoners in 1988

By Imogen Calderwood 

Furious protesters launched a three-day 'hunger strike' outside Downing Street following the mass execution of prisoners in Iran.
Campaigners said they are refusing to eat in a desperate attempt to bring those they brand the 'perpetrators' of the killings to justice.
They are urging the UK government and the UN to condemn hanging in the country, which carries out the second highest number of executions in the world.

Outrage: Protesters launched a hunger strike outside Downing Street, in London, following the mass executions of prisoners in Iran

Crimes: Up to 30 prisoners, many of them political, were executed in Iran this week. Their families were called to visit the prison and say their goodbyes, according to campaigners, but when they arrived they were told their relatives had already been killed

Protester Asmad Ebrahimi, 55, told MailOnline: 'This is very important for me. I was a political prisoner for 10 years and I know how it feels for the victims and their families.
'Their voices can't get out from behind the walls of the prison. We're here for them, it's our responsibility.'
The electrical engineer added: 'Nobody has taken action against this crime against humanity.'
Business graduate Naghmeh Rajavi, 29, said: 'I'm doing this in solidarity with the political prisoners in Iran.
'I'm a victim of the Iranian regime as well, I've had two aunts executed. I think it's my responsibility not just as an Iranian but as a human being to be the voice of those who are tortured.'
It comes after up to 30 Sunni prisoners from Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran, were executed on Tuesday.
The day before, guards raided up a number of death row prisoners.
'Their hands and feet were chained, mouths shut with tape and heads covered with plastic bags,' reported the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ).

Killed: These are some of the prisoners reported to have been executed this week, at Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran. Campaigners report many of them were political prisoners or had had 'grossly unfair' trials

Sentenced: Iranian authorities broadcast the alleged confessions of some of those executed before they died, but campaigners insist the prisoners were tortured. Pictured, Sunni prisoners praying at Gohardasht Prison

They were taken to an undisclosed location, and on Tuesday morning their families received phone calls warning them to be at the prison before 3pm to say their last goodbyes to their loved ones.
But some arrived at the prison only to be told their relatives were already dead, according to human rights groups.
'We got on the road, but they called us on our way and told us not to go to prison, and to go to the morgue in Kahrizak instead,' a family member of executed 28-year-old Shahram Ahmadi told the New York-based International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.
'They called again to say that we should go directly to Behesht-e Zahra cemetery. They had executed him before we arrived. We were only able to get the body.'
Mr Ahmadi was convicted for 'enmity against God' and sentenced to death in a trial that lasted only a few minutes and which Amnesty described as 'grossly unfair'.
Tuesday's executions came on the anniversary of the 1988 massacre of up to 30,000 prisoners across the country - many political prisoners.
Protester Zohreh Moalemi, 56, added: 'We are here asking for action to be taken against this brutality, injustice and this crime against humanity. Enough is enough. It is something that has to be stopped.' 

Help: Those doing the hunger strike revealed that many of them had either been political prisoners themselves in Iran, or had lost family members and friends

Conflict: Iranian authorities released on Wednesday a statement claiming those prisoners executed were 'murderers' and 'terrorists'. However, the information has been contested by human rights groups

The fast in Whitehall has also attracted the attention of Conservative MP Dr Matthew Offord.
'The mass execution of Sunni political prisoners is deeply disturbing and has rightly been condemned,' he said in a statement sent to the NCRI.
'We will continue to stand with you all and highlight your concerns in parliament.'
Iran has not provided much explanation for Tuesday's executions.
  

Executions: The hunger strike will continue for three days, with those carrying out the strike gathering to protest at intervals throughout the weekend outside Downing Street

Concern: It is estimated that some 2,400 people, including juveniles and women, have been executed in Iran in the past three years

Although Iranian state television broadcast what it claimed were the confessions of some members of the Sunni Muslim group before the executions, activists and human rights groups claim the prisoners had been tortured.
It is estimated that some 2,400 people, including juveniles and women, have been executed in Iran in the past three years.