16 executions in Qom, Zahedan, Saveh, Sari and Orumieh
NCRI – The killing machine of the murderous dictatorship in Iran did not halt even on the first day of the New Year as the anti-human regime hanged 4 people in Zahedan Prison on charges of “spreading corruption on earth” on Saturday, January 1st. Mullah Hamidi, judiciary chief of Sistan-Baluchestan Province, southeastern Iran, also accused those hanged of killing a state security agent (State run IRNA News Agency, January 1st).
The judiciary chief of Qom, central Iran, announced that last week 8 prisoners were executed on drug trafficking charges and the death sentences had been issued for 16 other prisoners.
Execution of two prisoners in Saveh, one prisoner in Sari (25 December), one prisoner in Orumieh (23 December), issuing death sentence for one prisoner in Tehran and appeal for the execution of 5 prisoners in Esfahan are also amongst suppressive measures of the Iranian regime in the past days.
In the meantime, the Iranian regime’s state-run media reported imminent execution of Saber Shariati, a 20-year old prisoner aged 15 at the time of his attributed crime. In the past, implementation of this sentence was suspended due to international protests. In yet another suppressive act, on Sunday, 26 December 2010, the Iranian regime’s intelligence agents shot dead a deprived villager and arrested his brother in an attack on the border village of Kahnouk in the province of Sistan-Baluchestan.
Unable to confront with the Iranian people’s protest and outrage especially after the implementation of the anti-popular law of abolishing subsidies, the faltering regime of mullahs has resorted to expanding suppression and increasing the number of executions in order to create a climate of fear.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 2, 2011
