NCRI – The mullah’s regime hanged a prisoner without naming him, in the central city of Yazd, the state-run daily Emrooz reported on Saturday. The prisoner was scheduled to be hanged in public, however instead the sentence was carried behind closed doors apparently in compliance with the mullahs’ judiciary chief ordering death penalty not to be carried out in public.
On January 31, the mullahs’ judiciary chief, Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, ordered death penalty should be carried out behind close doors. This is a new tactic by the Iranian regime to carryout other heinous crimes such as amputating limbs and gouging eyes behind closed doors.
The Iranian judiciary officials admit that the decision to halt public executions was taken in fear of its adverse public repercussions and that the regime has failed to suppress opposition.
"We have repeatedly seen that people expressed sympathy with the person who was going to be hanged in public. People even expressed their abhorrence at the execution of the sentence," said the assistant prosecutor for sentences in Tehran’s criminal prosecution office, the state-run daily Javan reported on January 31.
"With far less expenditure, executions could be carried out in prison," he added.
