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Six prisoners hanged in six days, a pregnant woman sentenced to death

Hanging nooseNCRI – A prisoner identified by his first name, Abbas, was hanged in the southern city of Kazeron, the state-run daily Qods reported on December 10, 2008.

Three prisoners identified only by their initials as M.M., P.D. and A.R. were hanged by the mullahs' judiciary in the southeastern city of Zahedan, reported the semi-official news agency Fars on December 6.

Separately, the mullahs' regime hanged two prisoners aged 25 and 27 without identifying them in Dastgerd prison in central city of Isfahan on December 2.

 A young pregnant woman identified as Shahla has been sentenced to death by the Iranian regime. Her husband has also been sentenced to death according to the state-run media.

In the meantime, the mullahs' judiciary had sentenced a 30-year-old woman to death, reported the state-run daily Etemaad on December 14.

The Iranian Resistance draws the attention of all international human rights organizations, in particular the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to the appalling human rights conditions in Iran and calls for the referral of the regime’s human rights dossier to the UN Security Council for adoption of binding measures to stop brutal rights abuses.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 12, 2008