Iran: The mullahs’ regime hanged 29 prisoners in Evin prison to suppress public protests

NCRI – The mullahs' regime hanged 29 prisoners on Sunday in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. Since last September when the regime hanged 21 people in one day, but in two different places — seventeen in the northeastern city of Mashhad and four in the southern city of Shiraz — today's hangings are by far the largest in one place.
 
"We are hoping Tehran will become the most unsafe place for drug dealers, thugs," Tehran's infamous chief prosecutor, Saeed Mortazavi was quoted as saying by state radio.

"These convicts had long criminal records and after being released from prison they returned to the same criminal activities," he said.

The Iranian regime has not had any lock in suppressing the popular protests especially since it introduced the so-called "boosting public security plan."
 
The so-called "boosting public security plan" was first introduced in April 2007 to combat popular uprisings. Mass street arrests of hundreds of thousands of women and youth under the pretext of "mal-veiling" and cracking down on "thugs and hooligans" followed. In the same period, more than 300 prisoners were sent to gallows.

Mortazavi, in an interview with the semi-official news agency Fars in Evin prison on Sunday, uncovered the clerical regime's real intentions of following the plan vehemently and said, "We are determined to implement the 'public security plan' to combat public disorder and breach of security…We believe that hanging thugs is a sign of our resolve for fighting crimes."