NCRI – Iran regime has hanged five prisoners on Wednesday in southern city of Shiraz, state-run daily Etemad reported on Saturday.
The hangings, raised to at least 185 the number of people executed in Iran since the start of 2009, indicating a 70 percent rise compared to the same period last year.
In the past 10 days, the Iranian regime has hanged at least 20 prisoners in Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Kerman, Khash and Zahedan.
Iran under the mullahs currently ranks first for per capita executions in the world.
On May 9, Hassan Qashqavi, spokesman for the Iranian regime’s Foreign Ministry, responded to widespread international protests against the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran and the increasing trend of arbitrary executions, specifically the execution of minors.
He brazenly defended these punishments, saying, “We have serious differences with the West over democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. … We even have very serious problems over an issue like execution. … This year, Amnesty International has said that the total number of the dead is 3,000. … These are serious human rights discussions.”
In a statement the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said on Monday: "The Iranian regime’s explicit and unveiled support for systematic and cruel human rights violations makes more urgent the imperative of referring Iran’s human rights violations dossier to the UN Security Council for adoption of binding measures against the religious fascism ruling Iran."
