On August 20, the Iranian regime hanged six prisoners without naming them in the northeastern city of Birjand while two others were hanged in the Qezelhesar prison 40 kilometer west of the capital, the state-run dailies Khorasan and Qods reported respectively.
According to the state-run daily Etemaad a man identified as Bahram who had allegedly committed a crime 19 years ago was executed in the northern city of Tabriz on August 20. The same source reported another hanging this time in the northeastern city of Bojnourd also on August 20.
This morning a young man, Behnam Zare, after spending five years in prison, was hanged for a crime allegedly committed when he was 15 in Adela Abad prison in the southern city of Shiraz.
The mullahs' inhuman regime has stepped up executions throughout the country as a criminal and fearful reaction to the popular uprisings and other crisis in Iran.
Emphasizing that silence and inaction by the international community over the brutal violation of human rights in Iran emboldens the mullahs to continue and expand its crimes, the Iranian Resistance calls on the UN Secretary General, Security Council, High Commissioner for Human Rights and other competent international bodies to take urgent measures to prevent growing trend of executions in Iran. It also calls for immediate referral of the clerical regime's human rights dossier to the UN Security Council for adoption of binding measures.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
August 26, 2008