These bring to 62 the number of people hanged or sentenced to death in the three months after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office. The figure is greater than the one for the preceding seven months.
A young man, hanged last Tuesday in the martyrs square in Kazeroun, southern Iran, was only 17 at the time of the alleged offense and had been imprisoned for five years. Two others were hanged on September 14 and 16 in Yazd (Central Iran) and another was hanged today in Ahwaz (southwest Iran). He was charged with being a Mohareb (waging war on God).
Two women, one them 19, are among the five sentenced to death.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran again urges international human rights organizations to condemn these barbaric executions, particularly those of minors which blatantly violate conventions on the rights of children. The NCRI also calls on the current session of the United Nations General Assembly to adopt a strongly-worded resolution censuring the medieval dictatorship ruling Iran for its crimes against humanity.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
September 17, 2005