NCRI – Iranian regime has publicly hanged a man in the western city of Ahvaz, the state-run news agency ISNA reported on Friday.
The prisoner was only identified as S.M. He was executed on Wednesday, the report said quoting the local judiciary without giving further details.
The report said that one more man will be executed in Ahvaz city on March.13 and another drug trafficker will be executed March.14.
The total number of executions based on state-run media reports since the beginning of the current Iranian year (started on March 21, 2009) has passed 440.
The true figure for executions is much higher as this does not cover the secret executions and the ones not reported by the media or people killed in streets by suppressive forces.
In the past, the clerical regime has executed many political prisoners as ordinary criminals and drug traffickers.
