NCRI – A 23-year-old man was hanged in a prison in the city of Bojnourd (northeastern Iran) on Wednesday, according to the state-run ISNA news agency (November 18, 2009). Three others, identified as Vahid Sh., Rasoul T., and Beygom P., one of whom a woman, were also hanged in the central prison of Isfahan on the same day.
The growing vicious hangings by the clerical regime are used as a means for confronting escalating anti-regime popular protests and to intimidate people and youth who have risen up in various cities across Iran.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all human rights organizations, especially the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Rapporteur on Executions to implement urgent measures to stop punishment by hanging in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 19, 2009
