NCRI - Eight young men hanged in Tehran's notorious Evin prison on Wednesday, June 11. Two of them had been in prison for many years.

A 17-year-old boy by the name of Mohammad Hassan-Zadeh was also hanged on Tuesday, June 10, for a crime he had allegedly committed when he was only 14. His sentence was carried out in Sanandaj prison, Iranian Kurdistan in the west. A 60-year-old man by the name of Rahim Pashabadi was hanged along with the young boy in the prison while he was suffering from an ailment.

Increase in the number of executions and suppression across Iran is aimed to create a reign of terror to counter growing public discontent, widespread protests and strikes, and to overshadow the regime's incurable domestic and international crises.

The Iranian Resistance calls on all human rights organizations and in particular the relevant UN bodies to condemn brutal suppression and crimes committed by the clerical regime and demands referral of its human rights dossier to the UN Security Council for adoption of binding measures. 

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 12, 2008