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Bandar Abbas execution, Nov. 15, 2014 |
Two weeks after the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Iran, where the vast use of the death penalty and public executions was among biggest concerns of the international community, Iranian authorities continue the executions as before.
Five public executions have been reported during the last week. Iran Human Rights (IHR) strongly condemns the public executions and urges the international community to react.
Iran Human Rights, November 16, 2014: Three young men were publicly hanged in the city of Bandar Abbas (Southern Iran) Saturday November 15.
According to the Iranian state broadcasting the the three prisoners who were not identified by name were charged with kidnapping, rape and armed robbery.
IHR can not confirm the charges through independent sources.
Iranian authorities’ use of the death penalty and lack of due process has been widely criticized by the international community.
Iran: Three prisoners hanged in public
NCRI - The Iranian regime’s henchmen executed three prisoners in public on Saturday using a crane, pulley system and a specially adapted device for group executions.
The identities of the three prisoners were not revealed and no specific information was provided about the crimes committed, their time of arrest or if they had been sentenced through any process within the clerical regime’s own laws.
The graphic images of the brutal public hangings were published in the local media in order to intimidate the public.
At least nine prisoners were hanged last week in Iran, including two political prisoners, as the execution rate soars under so-called 'moderate' Hassan Rouhani.
The political prisoners named as Vahid Shahbakhsh and Mahmoud Shahbakhsh were hanged in the main prison in the city of Zahedan, south-eastern Iran.
Vahid had been sentenced to three years imprisonment plus execution and was held in section 4 of the prison.
In a letter to UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Vahid Shahbakhsh had revealed the torture he had been subjected to.
Vahid’s letter that has surfaced on the Internet said: “I was at my home on May 22, 2014 when the members of Quds Force attacked my residents with rocket launchers and mortar shells. While I was severely injured with shrapnel in my body I was taken to a detention center and put under torture.”
Mahmoud, 26, had been sentenced to death and was being held in section 1 of the prison.
Further reports received from inside the regime said another prisoner named as Bahador Niroomand was hanged in the main prison in the city of Bandar-Abbas on the same day.
Three more prisoners named as Morteza Rostami, Hooshang Saki and Mohammad Gholampour were also hanged in Shahab prison in city of Kerman on November 13.
Source: NCRI, November 18, 2014
Photos of the execution (source: NCRI):
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Bandar Abbas execution, Nov. 15, 2014 |
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Bandar Abbas execution, Nov. 15, 2014 |
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