[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

[Rick Halperin]

Jan. 3



IRAN----executions

14 including 4 women hanged on New Year's Day



The religious dictatorship ruling in Iran has hanged at least 14 prisoners on 
the New Year's Day in several prisons in 4 cities in Iran.

A group of 4 women were hanged in Shahab prison in the city of Kerman (southern 
Iran). 2 prisoners were hanged in city of Bandar Abbas.

Another group of 7 prisoners were hanged in Shahab prison. In Qazvin, a 
38-year-old prisoner sent to gallows in Boeen Zahra prison.

Meanwhile, the clerical regime's henchmen amputated a hand of a 30-year-old man 
in a prison in the northeastern city of Mashhad.

The United Nations General Assembly last month slammed the violations of human 
rights by the Iranian regime.

The resolution criticized the Iranian regime's use of inhuman punishments, 
including flogging and amputations.

The UN's 61st resolution also censured the mullahs' dictatorship ruling Iran 
for the rise in executions, public executions and execution of juveniles.

In this resolution, the UNGA condemned the Iranian regime for cruel, inhumane 
and degrading punishments, especially the flogging and amputation of limbs and 
hands.

The Iranian regime unveiled a terrifying device in 2013 that they use to chop 
off fingers. The device that looks like something devised for a grisly horror 
movie operates as a circular saw that guillotines prisoners' fingers.

Since Hassan Rouhani became president of the clerical regime, over 1,200 have 
been executed and hundreds more have been subjected to degrading and inhumane 
punishments such as amputation, flogging in public and being paraded in 
streets.

The Iranian Resistance has repeatedly condemned the carrying out of medieval 
punishments and executions by the clerical regime in Iran and has called for 
referral of the regime's violations of human rights record to the United 
Nations Security Council.

(source: NCR-Iran)