{"id":2442,"date":"2006-11-03T13:50:28","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T13:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/issues\/human-rights\/2442-two-hangings-reported-in-southern-iran"},"modified":"2023-01-12T17:00:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T16:00:16","slug":"two-hangings-reported-in-southern-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/two-hangings-reported-in-southern-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Two hangings reported in southern Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"hanging-Ahwaz\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-29973\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Two hangings reported in southern Iran\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2006\/11\/hanging-Ahwaz.jpg\" width=\"100\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/hanging-Ahwaz.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/hanging-Ahwaz-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/>NCRI &#8211; The state-run news agency Fars reported today that two prisoners were hanged in Ahwaz, provincial capital of Khuzistan. <\/p>\n<p>The news agency identified the two as Amir A. and Ali H. who were hanged in the city&#8217;s prison known as Karoun. <\/p>\n<p>Ahwaz was the scene of violent protests over the past year and a number of those arrested have already been hanged in public. <\/p>\n<p>The semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami quoted on July 4 the Prosecutor General of the southwestern city of Ahwaz, Iraj Amirkhani, as saying, &#8220;The maximum [death] sentence has been sought for 22 people indicted in the Ahwaz bombings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Simultaneous death sentences for 22 people are an indication of the province&#8217;s volatile state and the medieval regime&#8217;s ever-increasing weakness in confronting the popular discontent in the forms of demonstrations and uprisings which have come about as a result of severe poverty and extreme suppression by the regime. <\/p>\n<p>Confronted by a wave of increasing popular discontent, the mullahs&#8217; regime has dispatched groups of suppressive forces to Khuzistan Province, in particular targeting the city of Ahwaz to suppress uprisings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCRI &ndash; The state-run news agency Fars reported today that two prisoners were hanged in Ahwaz, provincial capital of Khuzistan. 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