NCRI – Four prisoners were transferred on Sunday to solitary confinements in preparation for their execution at a later date in the notorious Gohardasht prison, 40 kilometer west of Tehran.
The prisoners were identified as Javad Tahori, Seed Mohsen Hosseini, Abbas Checkub and Ali Athari. The men were in their late twenties.
The UN's Third Committee — the world's authority on human rights — condemned unanimously in a resolution the Iranian regime for its human rights record on Friday.
The UN body expressed deep concern over the "ongoing systematic violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms of the people of the Islamic Republic of Iran" such as "torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment such as flogging and amputations, public executions, stoning as a method of execution, execution of persons who were below 18 years of age at the time their offence was committed, arrests of and violent crackdowns on women exercising their right to assembly, increasing discrimination and other human rights violations against persons belonging to religious, ethnic, linguistic or other minorities, ongoing and serious restrictions of freedom of opinion and expression, peaceful assembly and association, and the increasing harassment, intimidation and persecution of human rights defenders."
