NCRI – Iran’s fundamentalist regime on Sunday hanged two young men in public in the city of Mashhad, north-east Iran.
The official state broadcaster quoted the regime’s prosecutor general in Mashhad, Gholam-Ali Sadeqi, as confirming the two men to have been 24 and 25 years of age.
Their names were not given.
They were hanged in the city’s Hafez Square.
At least 66 prisoners, including two women, have been executed in Iran, in some cases in public squares, in just over a fortnight.
A statement by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Wednesday said: “Iran has reportedly executed more than 600 individuals so far this year. Last year, at least 753 people were executed in the country.”
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