NCRI – A man has been hanged in public on Friday in Tabriz, capital of Azerbaijan province, reported an official Iranian daily.
Kayhan newspaper did not mention the name or the age of the convict. He was charged with a murder allegedly committed in March 2004.
This week two other men have been hanged and five other sentenced to death.
The official tally of the hangings since January of 2006 based on reports in government-run media stands at 103.
The NCRI’s Foreign Affairs Committee Chair, Mohammad Mohaddessin, has sent a copy of the list of those hanged to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Louise Arbour, and reiterated that the main purpose of hangings by the mullahs’ regime is to create an atmosphere of fear and panic among the public.
He called on the High Commissioner and the United Nations Human Rights Council to condemn these criminal acts and put the deplorable state of human rights violations in Iran under permanent review.
