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Iran: Executions continue on verge of World Day Against the Death Penalty

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The cycle of crime and incessant execution in an Iran under the rule of the mullahs even continues to victimize the Iranian people and the youth on the verge of the World Day Against the Death Penalty.

On October 7, regime’s henchmen hanged three prisoners in Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison. They had been transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their death sentences on Monday. Concurrently, another prisoner was transferred to solitary cell in Sanandaj Prison in anticipation of his execution.

On October 4 and 6, two prisoners were hanged in prisons in Shiraz and Qazvin.

Persistence of the cruel death penalty in various cities even on the verge of the World Day Against the Death Penalty demonstrates that this loathed regime is in dire need of imposing suppression and savage penalties such as execution to cling to power.

The leaders of this regime that are incapable of providing the most basic needs of the Iranian people have found no resort to bar expansion of popular protests other than resorting to suppression and the death penalty. The regime’s leaders have repeatedly warned of an uprising by the “army of hungry”. On October 6, Servati, a parliamentarian, described the critical state of the society by saying: “The representatives are facing popular protests in the cities and villages where people are unhappy with the unsuitable state of housing and that their needs are not met. They hold many gatherings and protests and object to the absence of infrastructures.”

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 7, 2015