Iran: Seven prisoners hanged in Rasht
Saturday, 13 July 2013: NCRI - The Iranian regime's judiciary chief in
northern province of Gilan has said that seven prisoners have been
hanged in a prison in the city of Rashat on last Tuesday evening.
Mohammad Javad Heshmati, who was speaking with the state-run news network did not identify the victims.
In the weeks following the June sham presidential election almost one hundred prisoners have been hanged in Iran. A number of execution have been carried in public.
Among those executed are six women and a prisoner who was 15-years-old when arrested. A high number of prisoners were executed collectively in groups of 21, 11 and 6 persons. This is while thousands of prisoners in various prisons in the country are on death row.
Mohammad Javad Heshmati, who was speaking with the state-run news network did not identify the victims.
In the weeks following the June sham presidential election almost one hundred prisoners have been hanged in Iran. A number of execution have been carried in public.
Among those executed are six women and a prisoner who was 15-years-old when arrested. A high number of prisoners were executed collectively in groups of 21, 11 and 6 persons. This is while thousands of prisoners in various prisons in the country are on death row.
