NCRI – Two more prisoners were hanged in the port city of Bandar Abbas in oil rich southern province of Khuszistan today, Fars state-run news agency reported.
The men identified as Ali D. and Karim T. were alleged to have been involved in drug trafficking. 21 other prisoners were hanged yesterday on the charges of being “corrupt on earth.”
Recent wave of executions in Iran which includes political prisoners, follows widespread protests across the country against mullahs’ medieval rule. The number of executions in the first eight months of 2007 has well exceeded the total number in 2006.
