Number of executions reaches 20 in two weeks
NCRI – Five prisoners hanged Monday, October 11, in the central prison of Isfahan. According to local Justice Department, one of the victims identified as Yaghoub D., 32, was an Afghan national.
A day earlier, on the World Day against the Death Penalty, four other prisoners, including a woman, were hanged in the central prison of Zanjan.
Adding the group execution of eight in the central prison of Kerman, a woman prisoner in Shirvan and two others in Orumieh prison between September 28 and October 7, the total number of executions in two weeks reaches 20.
The regime, unable to deal with multiple crises and in the face of rising general aversion, finds its only way out in intensifying repression and more executions.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights organizations, the UN Secretary General, High Commissioner for Human Rights and special rapporteurs on arbitrary arrests and executions to condemn the critical state of human rights in Iran and take urgent measures to halt the ongoing criminal trend.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 12, 2010