It has only been only one week since the Iranian New Year or Nowruz, but the mullahs’ ruling Iran have twice sent groups of prisoners to the gallows.
The clerical regime which can only prolong its bloody rule in Iran by executions and intimidations to suppress any opposition or dissent in the country, didn’t wait until the New Year holidays finish and them wrap its bloody hands around the neck of the Iranian people. The clerical regime hanged 12 people in just one day, 5 in Mashhad and 7 in Shiraz on Thursday.
The 7 prisoners were sent to the gallows at dawn on Thursday in Adel-Abad Shiraz. They had been transferred to the solitary Thursday of the week before and had spent a week in the solitary waiting for the sentence to be carried out.
Due to the holidays in Iran, Iranian newspapers do not print, and so these executions have not been reported and it was carried out in total silence.
The other 5 prisoners were hanged in the holy city of Mashhad, northern Iran on the same day making the total of 12 in just one day. The judiciary has not announced these executions either.
Most of these executions are carried out against prisoners with charges including drug trafficking which is not punishable by death even with the standards of the regime itself.
Yesterday, the UN High Council on Human Rights extended Mr. Ahmad Shaheed’s mandate for another year as a Special Rapporteur on human rights violations in Iran. Mr. Shaheed recently said that Iran has executed over 1000 people in just 15 months and the number keeps growing by day. He called this alarming and called for a halt of the executions in Iran.
Iran has the highest number of executions per capita in the world, according to the UN Rapporteur.
The Iranian regime has not allowed the Ahmad Shaheed to visit Iran since he was assigned to this task.