NCRI – Iran’s fundamentalist regime has hanged a prisoner and transferred seven others to solitary confinement in preparation for their execution, which is expected to be carried out on Monday.
A prisoner only identified by the initials Z.P. was hanged on Friday in the central prison of Rasht, northern Iran.
Seven other death row prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement on Saturday in Bandar Abbas Prison, southern Iran, to face imminent execution.
They have been identified as Hossein Karimi, 25; Siamak Fadaii, 24; Zaher Amroddin, 24 (an Afghan citizen); Vazirahmad Amroddin, 22 (Afghan); Amir-Hossein Abdol-Khaleq, 22; Mansour Mehdizadeh, 68; and Gholam Fayezi, 28.
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