Iran: Vakilabad Prison Mashad

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today that the Iranian judiciary should immediately institute a moratorium on all executions in Vakilabad Prison in Mashad and provide a transparent response to allegations of excessive numbers of executions at this prison.
ICHRI continues to receive credible reports about repeated, unannounced group executions of inmates.
Reliable sources indicate that numerous executions have taken place inside Vakilabad over the last year and more than 600 inmates remain on death row.
Authorities report that October 12, ten inmates were executed, these numbers are considerably lower than the actual numbers.There are no executed identified and former prisoners state that officials tried to limit information about group executions from leaving the prison.
Family, lawyers, and prisoners themselves not only do not receive any written ruling pertaining to the execution, let alone having the family present during the executions.
The bodies are delivered the next day, after the families have paid the cost of the rope used in the hanging.
The day ahead for the executions, prison telephones are cut off at around 4:00 p.m. so that no one can report the news to the outside world and the prisoners are moved inside the ward.
No one knows whose turn it is until the names are read on a loud speaker and officials and guards remove the prisoners from the ward.
source: iranhumanrights.net


Jalayer Vahdat en Sima Eshraghi two Bahai from Mashhad have been transferred to Vakilabad Prison in order to serve their 5 year prison sentence.
They were convicted of anti-regime propaganda, acting against national security and blasphemy.
The Bahai Davar Nabilzadeh, Nahid Ghadiri, Nasrin Ghadiri, Rozita Vaseghi, Hooman Bakhtavar, Kaviz Nouzdahi en Sima Rajabian, are serving prisonterms of 2-5 year for similar charges.
source: HRHI

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In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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