NCRI – Iran regime on Tuesday hanged a man in the northern city of Gonbad Kavoos, the state run broadcasting company’s website reported.
The prisoner, identified as Abdollah A., was hanged in the city’s prison.
Amnesty International said on Monday in its annual report that the Iranian regime had executed at least 317 people during the year 2007. Many of the executions were carried out in public.
According to the figures from Amnesty International’s yearly statistics, at least 1,252 people were executed in 24 countries worldwide. More than a quarter of all known executions in the world were carried out by the regime in Iran.
Iran under the mullahs’ rule is one of the three countries in the world that executes people for crimes they have committed when under 18.
According to the report, the youngest executed in the world was a 13-year-old by the mullahs’ regime last April.
In Iran at least one man was stoned to death.
