The state-run IRNA news agency reported on December 28 the public hangings of two men in Ahwaz, Iran (capital of the southwestern province of Khuzistan). The two, identified as “Naim Abdoullah Kh.” (a.k.a. Rahim) and “Jalil H.”, had been condemned to death on charges of “warring against God” by the Ahwaz Revolutionary Court.
The clerical regime’s judiciary also issued a death sentence for a 22 year-old woman according to the Etemad daily on December 25. The daily Joumhouri also reported that three men were each given two death by hanging sentences and one death by stoning sentence in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran.
The daily Hamshahri reported on December 22 that the death sentence for a man identified as Taghi had been upheld. The same day, IRNA reported that a prisoner named Jasem Chak had been condemned to death in Shiraz on charges of “hooliganism”.
These bring the number of hangings and death sentences in the past week to two and six respectively.
The Iranian Resistance condemns the unprecedented rise in the wave of brutal executions in Iran since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office as the regime’s new president. The executions are meant to intimidate and terrorize the general public. The Iranian Resistance calls for the clerical regime’s record of gross human rights violations to be referred to the United Nations Security Council. The international community’s silence and inaction has only emboldened the ruling theocracy in Iran to continue its crimes against the Iranian people.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 29, 2005