13 hanged, 23 sentenced to death in two days

NCRI - The Iranian regime's state-controlled media reported that 15 prisoners were sentenced to death in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj (west of Tehran) yesterday and that death sentences for three other prisoners in Fars Province (southern Iran) had been upheld.

The same day, two prisoners, Ali Asghar Nosrati and Saeed Taleipour, were hanged in Gohardasht Prison.

On Wednesday, 11 prisoners were hanged and five more sentenced to death. As such, in only two days, the clerical regime has hanged 13 people and sentenced 23 more to death.

NCRI's Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Mohammad Mohaddessin, in a letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, drew her attention to the ruthless wave of executions that have risen dramatically since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president.  The brutal executions were an attempt to terrorize and intimate the public and confront widespread public discontent, Mohaddessin wrote.

He asked Mrs. Arbour to initiate urgent international action to prevent increasing executions in Iran and added that silence and inaction on the part of the international community, in particular the lack of a special rapporteur to deal with the deteriorating situation of human rights in Iran, had undoubtedly given the mullahs free rein to continue the killing and suppression of the Iranian people with impunity.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 21, 2006