Tuesday, April 19, 2016
OIAC- Iranian Regime hanged three prisoners in a jail in Rasht, northern Iran on Sunday, April, as the European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini is in Tehran to build greater trade ties between the EU and the regime.
The three prisoners were identified by the regime’s judiciary in Golestan Province only by their initials and ages: E. M., 29; D. A., 51; and F. V., 31
Amnesty International in its April 6 annual Death Penalty report covering the 2015 period wrote: “Iran put at least 977 people to death in 2015, compared to at least 743 the year before.”
“Iran alone accounted for 82% of all executions recorded” in the Middle East and North Africa, the human rights group said.
There have been more than 2,300 executions during Hassan Rouhani’s tenure as President. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran in March announced that the number of executions in Iran in 2015 was greater than any year in the last 25 years. Rouhani has explicitly endorsed the executions as examples of “God’s commandments” and “laws of the parliament that belong to the people.”
