IRAN: Six prisoners hanged

The Iranian regime’s henchmen hanged at least six men in the northwestern city of Orumiyeh on Thursday .

Prisoners Shahin Salehi, Haji Abbassi, Ahmad Shiri, Latif Alizadeh, Abdolaziz Fouladi and Hassan Bina all were executed in the city’s main prison.

Also on Saturday a prisoner was hanged in public in the city of Rasht.

UN human rights experts condemned the recent surge in executions in Iran, the majority of which are unreported.

Reports received from Geneva on 8th May 2015 from United Nations Special Rapporteurs involving the situation of human rights in Iran by Ahmed Shaheed and on extrajudicial executions by Christof Heyns have condemned the drastic increase in executions since the past few weeks.

In many cases executions have gone unreported by official sources and the names of those being executed have not been disclosed to the public.

“When the Iranian government refuses to even acknowledge the full extent of executions which have occurred, it shows a callous disregard for both human dignity and international human rights law,” Mr. Shaheed stressed.

Between the 9th and the 26th of April as many as 98 prisoners are reported to have been executed at an average of six per day.

“We are alarmed by the recent surge in the number of executions, which has occurred despite serious questions about fair trial standards,” Mr. Heyns noted.