{"id":5553,"date":"2008-08-28T08:18:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T07:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/issues\/human-rights\/5553-iran-five-hangings-on-wednesday"},"modified":"2023-01-13T03:15:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T02:15:03","slug":"iran-five-hangings-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iran-five-hangings-on-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Five hangings on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-32460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2008\/08\/iran-jan2008-execution-150.jpg\" alt=\"iran-executions-150\" title=\"iran-executions-150\"   width=\"150\" height=\"102\" align=\"right\" \/>NCRI &ndash; The mullahs&#39; inhuman regime hanged five prisoners, a woman and four men. They were Shabnam, Amin, Vahid, Majid and Najaf, the state-run daily Iran reported on Thursday. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The Iranian regime indifferent to international calls to stay execution in the country, stepped up executions in summer especially that of the young prisoners who had allegedly committed a crime when under 18.&nbsp;   <\/p>\n<p>According to rights groups there are at least 132 juveniles on death row in Iran. In past few months six of them were hanged in different jails nationwide.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>A day after the EU presidency issued a statement condemning the execution of Reza Hejazi, a young man allegedly committing a crime when he was only 15, another minor Behnam Zare was executed on Wednesday in Adel Abad prison in the southern city of Shiraz. 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