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Sixteen political prisoners on the
verge of being hanged
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16 political Forty prisoners in various prisons were transferred on
Saturday, April 11, from their cellblocks to solitary cells to prepare their
executions
Families and relatives of 16 prisoners gathered outside the
prison, immediately after learning of this matter and demanded cancellation of
the death decrees.
Overlooking the pleas, the clerical regime executed 12
prisoners on the morning Sunday, April 12. All of the executed prisoners were
under 30 years of age.
Inmates in Gohardasht and Central prisons staged a protest
and hurled stones at prison guards. They
said, “We will not allow you to kill our cellmates; we will not let you kill
us.”
Head of the Prisons Organization had earlier declared that
half a million people are imprisoned every year and some 250,000 people are
detained unnecessarily.”
The National Council of Resistance of Iran condemned the heinous
executions and urged international bodies to take immediate action to prevent
execution of youths in Iran.
