NCRI – Iran hanged three men in public on Thursday, halfway through the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, Iranian media reported, in the latest of a series of executions by the mullahs’ regime.
Hadi Jafartabar, Mirhadi Mirtaghi and Seyyed Shoja Mousazadeh were executed in at a sports complex in the northern city of Babol, the state broadcaster said on its Web site.
Iran has sharply increased the number of public executions carried out in recent months.
At least 60 people have been put to death since mid-July, including 21 on September 5 alone, according to a count based on Iranian state-run media reports.
The European Union said last month it was "deeply concerned about the series of collective public executions" in Iran.
Amnesty International, which says Iran has one of the highest rates of executions in the world, said earlier this month it had recorded 210 so far this year, compared with 177 for all of 2006.
Iranian authorities hanged three men in public on Thursday halfway through the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.
The government-owned news agency Fars said that the three men were convicted of rape.
Under customary Islamic practice, executions are not to take place during the holy month of Ramadan, but this year authorities have heightened repression and ignored this rule.
