{"id":5214,"date":"2008-05-12T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/issues\/human-rights\/5214-iran-five-prisoners-hanged"},"modified":"2023-01-13T01:55:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T00:55:01","slug":"iran-five-prisoners-hanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-human-rights\/iran-five-prisoners-hanged\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Five Prisoners hanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"shirokhorshid-Golden-100\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-29628\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2006\/08\/shirokhorshid-Golden-100.jpg\" width=\"100\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/>Cruel sentences and degrading punishments handed down by the mullahs&#8217; Judiciary<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NCRI &#8211; Five young men identified only as Morteza, 21; Hadi, 24; Javad, 24; Hossein, 19 and Mehdi, 24 were hanged in the central prison in the holy city of Qom, reported the state-run daily Iran on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The mullahs&#8217; judiciary did not stop at sentencing the five young men to execution by hanging; in addition, they were also sentenced to be thrown off a cliff.<\/p>\n<p>Since April 20, at least 30 prisoners have been hanged in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the regime announced that another young man named Ali Mihan-Torabi, who was only 16 at the time of the alleged crime, will be hanged soon. <\/p>\n<p>The mullahs&#8217; regime has stepped up arbitrary executions to combat the growing public revulsion against it at home and international isolation abroad. <\/p>\n<p>The Iranian Resistance calls on the international community to end its silence over the medieval punishments and growing number of executions in Iran especially those of the juveniles. 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