According to the clerical regime’s state-run media reports, 11 prisoners were executed on February 16 and 17 in Shiraz, Zahedan, Sanadaj and Arak.
On February 17, three prisoners were hanged in Arak central prison. Three other prisoners were also hanged publicly on the same day in front of a terrified crowd in Shiraz. Another prisoner was hanged in Shiraz two days prior to this (IRGC Fars News Agency).
On February 16, four prisoners named Ahmad Shahnour Zehi, 20, Abdollah Barahoui, 27, Parviz Mirbalouch Zehi, 35, and Gholam Rigi Sistani, 38, were hanged in Zahedan central prison and another prisoner, Omar Shabazi, was hanged in Sanadaj central prison.
Most of these executions were carried out under the pretext of drug smuggling. This is while the execution of political prisoners under the pretext of drug smuggling is a known method within the mullahs’ regime.
The resorting of the mullahs’ disintegrated regime to public executions in prisons across the country is due to their fear of increasing social unrest and to create an atmosphere of intimidation in the society.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
February 18, 2013
