A young man on death row for a crime committed when he was only 14
NCRI – Two prisoners identified as Yazdan Karimi and Abutaleb Mohammadi Nasab were hanged in public in Sardar Square in the central city of Arak, the official news agency IRNA reported today.
A prisoner identified as Hamid P. was hanged in public in Mother Square in the western city of Khorramabad, IRNA reported on January 22.
Another prisoner named Reza Sharifi was executed by firing squad in Asad-Abad Garrison in Mobarakeh in the province of Isfahan, the state-run news agency Fars reported on Saturday.
The mullahs’ regime hanged a prisoner identified as Akhtar in the central city of Shahin-Shahr, the state-run daily Etemaad reported on January 23.
Separately, a young man named Mohammad Latif who was 14 at the time of alleged crime is put on death row after the regime’s Supreme Court upheld his death sentence.
The Iranian Resistance calls on the UN Secretary General, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and all international human rights and children rights organizations to condemn the increasing number of executions, in particular, that of the teenagers by the Iranian regime and refer its dossier to the UN Security Council.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 28, 2008
