{"id":17389,"date":"2014-10-19T14:40:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T13:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/issues\/human-rights\/17389-iran-four-prisoners-handed-in-northern-city"},"modified":"2023-01-15T23:37:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T22:37:54","slug":"iran-four-prisoners-handed-in-northern-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iran-four-prisoners-handed-in-northern-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Four prisoners hanged in northern city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"execution\" class=\" size-full wp-image-31637\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2008\/02\/execution.jpg\" alt=\"execution\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NCRI \u2013 The Iranian regime henchmen hanged four men on Sunday in the main prison in city of Rasht in northern Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The head of judiciary in Gilan province did not identify the prisoners but said they were all men that had been arrested on drug related charges.<\/p>\n<p>The reports by state run news outlets said the prisoners were 32, 46, 44 and 32 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Since Hassan Rouhani has become the president of the regime over 1000 prisoners have been executed whilst the news on the execution of many prisoners never gets out.<\/p>\n<p>At least 27 women and 12 prisoners who were juveniles at the time of their arrest, together with 20 political prisoners, are amongst those executed with 57 of these executions carried out in public. During this period, a number of prisoners were killed under torture.<\/p>\n<p>In a message on the occasion of the World Day Against the Death Penalty (October 10, 2014), Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, stated that the religious dictatorship ruling Iran is a government of executions based on its history, ideology, laws and daily policies.<\/p>\n<p>The head of policy and government affairs at Amnesty International said recently \u201cIran is a serial human rights offender\u201d adding \u201dPresident Rouhani has attempted to cast himself as a mild-mannered reformist figure, but the brutal reality is that Iran is hanging an average of two prisoners a day, the vast majority after unfair trials.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCRI &ndash; The Iranian regime henchmen hanged four men on Sunday in the main prison in city of Rasht in northern Iran. 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