|
IRAN: MAN HANGED, 9 OTHERS AT IMMINENT RISK OF EXECUTION
October 4, 2015: Iran's fundamentalist regime hanged a prisoner in southern Iran and transferred at least nine other death-row prisoners to solitary confinement in preparation for their impending execution.
Mr. Aziz Maktabi was hanged in the prison courtyard of Adel-Abad Prison in Shiraz.
In Karaj, north-west of Tehran, at least nine prisoners were transferred on October 5 to solitary confinement in Gohardasht (Rajai-Shahr) Prison.
The nine prisoners have been identified as: Hamidreza Azhdari, Mohammad Aziz-Abadi, Morteza Bayat, Mohammad Bigi, Mohammad Bik Mohammadi, Majid Javan Khalil-Pour, Mohammad Mikaelzadeh, Alireza Rahimi, and Dariush Shirazi.
Reports have surfaced that the regime plans to hang all nine men on October 7, only three days before the World Day Against the Death Penalty. (Source: NCRI, October 6, 2015)
|
