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NCRI – The Iranian regime hanged six prisoners last week after executions were briefly halted in the run up to the sham presidential election.<\/p>\n

The condemned men were put to death in public and in prisons on June 29 in a clear bid to sow fear among people.<\/p>\n

One prisoner named as Hossein Tokan convicted of drug trafficking and hanged in Salman Farsi Square in the city of Ahvaz. A second unnamed prisoner convicted of threatening the security forces was also hanged in public.<\/p>\n

Three others named as Afghan citizen Aref Nourzehi, 37, Shir Mohammad Kashani, 30, and Qorban Ali Souri, 55 – who had been jailed for 13 years – were confined to solitary confinement and had contact with their families cut off before being hanged in the Central Prison in Zahedan.<\/p>\n

The sixth prisoner identified only by his initials A.S. was hanged Gachsaran prison, western Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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