NCRI – As the Iranian regime’s authorities in the central prison in the city of Ilam were preparing to hang a prisoner on Monday a grenade was thrown at the prison gate to prevent the execution, State-run Fars News Agency reported.
According to the report the State Security Forces arrested those involved in the attack.
Since a few month ago members of families of prisoners on death row have occasionally gathered outside prisons to protest executions.
Family members threw a hand grenade inside an Iranian prison, leaving 28 people injured, in an abortive attempt to prevent an execution, state media reported today.
“During the carrying out of a death sentence, family members of a convict launched a grenade attack in Ilam central prison which led to the injuries,” the state-run IRNA news agency quoted the western province’s police chief, Colonel Ali Dolati, as saying.
Dolati said that prison staff were among the injured.
He said that security personnel overpowered and arrested the assailants before they could detonate a second hand grenade.
IRNA reported that the hanging of the prisoner then went ahead.
