29 PEOPLE WERE HANGED IN TEHRAN EARLY THIS MORNING JULY 27
Iran Human Rights, July 27: According to the Iranian state media 29 people were hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison early this morning! None of those executed were identified by name, while few of them were identified just by their initials! According to the state run ISCA news these people were convicted of murder, drug trafficking, disruption of order, consumption of alcohol, keeping arms, immoral relationships and other crimes!
This is the highest number of executions taken place during a single day in many years.
It is believed that the Iranian authorities increase number of executions in order to spread fear among an increasingly unsatisfied and prtesting population.
Iran Human Rights is investigating whether there are people arrested in the anti-government protests and other political prisoners among those executed this morning.
With the 29 executed this morning, number of the executions has raised to 56 so far in the month of July 2008!
The Iranian state run news agency Fars reported the names of ten of those who were executed: The ten men were: 1) Abdolrafi (35) convictedofmurdering Aziz 2) Abbas (42) convicted of murdering Seyyed Javad 3) Ali (47) convicted of murdering Tahere 4) Alireza (31) convictedof murdering Karamatallah 5) Reza (age not given) convicted of murdering Abdollah 6) Majid (age not given) convictedof murdering Ismael 7)Shir agha (age not given) convicted of murderin Seifollah 8) Amir (45) convicted of murdering a young girl 9) Hamid (age not given): he was a homless who is convicted of murdering another homeless identified as Ali 10) Mohammad (age not given) convictedofmurdering Ehsan
It is important to emphasize that Iran Human Rights does not have any independent information regarding the charges mentioned above. The state run Iranian media are the only sources used here.
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