NCRI – Seven prisoners were hanged in the past four days, the state-run news agencies Fars and IRNA reported.
A young man, identified as Arash, was hanged in the town of Mobarkeh in the central Province of Isfahan. Two prisoners were hanged in southwestern city of Ahwaz. Three prisoners, identified as Eskandar Abbassi, Vahid and Jamshid Abdi, were hanged in northern city of No-Shahr. One of the victims was hanged in the city’s stadium. Another prisoner, identified as Mahmoud T., was hanged in the Mahalati Square in the central city of Qom.
Simultaneous with the increasing crisis that has engulfed the regime, it has stepped up executions dramatically. On Monday, the French News Agency reported from Tehran that since the beginning of the month 11 prisoners had been executed.
The Iranian Resistance urges all international human rights organizations to condemn the arbitrary executions by the mullahs’ medieval regime and calls for the referral of the regime’s human rights dossier to the United Nations Security Council.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 17, 2007
