Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Iran: Seven More Executions-IHR Calls For Urgent UN Fact-Finding Mission To Iran - NEWS



Iran Human Rights
August 9, 2016
     At least five prisoners, including political prisoner Mohammad Abdollahi, were executed at Darya, Urmia's central prison, on Tuesday August 9. One other prisoner was executed on the same day at Miandoab Prison. One prisoner was hanged publicly in Saveh, Central Iran. Last week, Iran Human Rights had reported on the execution of at least 20 Sunni prisoners who were sentenced to death in a court hearing that lasted only a few minutes. IHR also recently reported on the unsuspected execution of Shahram Amiri, who was reportedly sentenced to ten years in prison.
     Iran Human Rights condemns the death penalty for any crime, and calls on the international community to react strongly and with urgency to the extrajudicial and summary executions carried out in Iran in recent weeks. "We call on the United Nations to send a fact-finding mission to Iran to investigate the judicial process and the execution of at least 20 Sunni prisoners, Shahram Amiri, and Mohammad Abdollahi," says Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, spokesperson for Iran Human Rights.”
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