NCRI – The state-run news agency Fars reported today that two prisoners were hanged in Ahwaz, provincial capital of Khuzistan.
The news agency identified the two as Amir A. and Ali H. who were hanged in the city’s prison known as Karoun.
Ahwaz was the scene of violent protests over the past year and a number of those arrested have already been hanged in public.
The semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami quoted on July 4 the Prosecutor General of the southwestern city of Ahwaz, Iraj Amirkhani, as saying, “The maximum [death] sentence has been sought for 22 people indicted in the Ahwaz bombings.”
Simultaneous death sentences for 22 people are an indication of the province’s volatile state and the medieval regime’s ever-increasing weakness in confronting the popular discontent in the forms of demonstrations and uprisings which have come about as a result of severe poverty and extreme suppression by the regime.
Confronted by a wave of increasing popular discontent, the mullahs’ regime has dispatched groups of suppressive forces to Khuzistan Province, in particular targeting the city of Ahwaz to suppress uprisings.
