Wave of barbaric executions continues in the new year in Iran. From January 6 to 12, the Iranian regime has hanged 19 prisoners.
It hanged seven prisoners in cities of Urumiyah, Salmas and Mashhad. Ahmad Shafiegh Khani, one of the four prisoners collectively hanged in Urumiyah was only 19 years old at the time of his arrest.
Two days earlier, five prisoners had been hanged in Qazvin, Gachsaran and Tabriz. Hanging of a prisoner in city of Sari (on January 6) and a 45 year old prisoner from Zabol in the prison of Yassouj (on January 12) are among the registered executions of this past week.
A shocking report that has leaked out of Adelabad Prison in Shiraz by the inmates discloses unceasing clandestine executions in this dreaded torture center. The leaked report states that on January 4, two prisoners, Hamid Tabkhi and Aghil Mohammadi, were secretly executed. Hamid Tabkhi was a minor. And on January 8, three other inmates, Omid Hosseini, 21, Majid Hayati and Bashir Assadi, were secretly executed.
The report partly reads: “Here, they kill men like sheeps… here is Adelabad of Shiraz with not an iota of justice!… This is that foremost dreaded prison of the century. Here, you cannot find any sunshine, light, joy or laughter. This is a graveyard. Everything here has a damp smell of wretchedness and villainy. Here is Adelabad with not an iota of justice!”
Meanwhile, cleric Mohseni Gorkani, head of regime’s supreme tribunal, called amputation of hand as in the interest of the society. He added that the sentence for mullahs’ fabricated charge of “Moharebeh” is death. He underscored the need to amputate hands and feet of thieves (Revolutionary Guards’ news agency of Tasnim – January 7, 2014).
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 13, 2014