NCRI – In the latest series of executions and public hangings in Iran twelve prisoners were hanged in northeastern city of Bojnourd southwestern city of Ahwaz, the state-run media reported.

Nine prisoners were hanged, one of them in public, in the northeastern city of Bojnourd, Kayhan newspaper reported, without giving the date that the executions were carried out.

"One person was hanged in public," said Kayhan, without giving further details.

Three prisoners were sent to the gallows in the southwestern city of Ahvaz on Sunday, the Quds newspaper reported.

At least 80 persons have been executed in Iran so far this year.

In 2007, more than a quarter of executions in the world were carried out by mullahs’ regime in Iran.