Iran: Five prisoners hanged secretly in Orumiyeh prison

                    

NCRI – The Iranian regime’s henchmen hanged at least another group of five men last week in a prison in city of Uromiyeh in northwestern Iran.

According to the information received from Iran, the prisoners were hanged in the Darya prison in the city.

On Monday, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran expressed concerns about a surge of executions in Iran.

Dr. Ahmed Shaheed who was "shocked" by the hanging of 26-year-old Reyhaneh Jabbari over the weekend, described a "surge in executions," giving Iran the world's highest death penalty rate per capita.

"The range of capital crimes is shocking," Shaheed told journalists. "We have seen a person executed for making a donation to a foreign organization."

The rapporteur said he had repeatedly raised questions with Tehran about the fairness of Ms. Reyhaneh Jabbari's trial.

The surge in executions shows that Rouhani has failed to deliver on campaign promises to improve the human rights situation in his country, a year after taking office, he said.

"He is unable to address the issues, unable to arrest this trend, to convert his promises which spoke to arresting this trend into action," said Shaheed.