Iran: 19 more prisoners await immediate hanging as executions soar under Rouhani

                  

NCRI - Prison authorities in the Iranian city of Karaj have transferred 19 men to isolation to await their execution.

At Gohardasht prison, nine men were placed in solitary confinement, and another ten were placed in isolation at Ghezelhasar prison, according to the information from inside the regime.

Two more prisoners - one a 23-year-old man - were also hanged at dawn on Wednesday in the main prison in the city of Qazvin, according to reports.

Since so-called 'moderate' Hassan Rouhani came to power, more than 1,000 prisoners including juvenile offenders and political prisoners have been executed - although the true figure may is much higher.

A video distributed on the internet this week shows the grief-stricken family members of eight executed prisoners mourning their loved-ones, whose bodies in black bags are lined up before them in a mortuary.

The video was secretly recorded on a mobile phone by an eyewitness who said a group of people are hanged secretly every Thursday in the city of Kerman.

The eyewitness said: "Many of the executions in this city are for possession of drugs offences. Usually these are young people who have grown up as orphans and due to poverty are now the sole breadwinner for their families."

Soaring human rights abuses in Iran, including an unprecedented rise in executions, the wave of state-organized acid attacks against women, and the continuing repression of religious and ethnic minorities, bloggers, reporters and activists are all taking place amid growing public discontent with the regime, but also in the absence of international action regarding the ongoing violation of human rights.