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More prisoners facing imminent execution in Iran

25 May
09:13 2015

NEWS DESK (DİHA) - In Iran, on May 23, sixteen prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement in Ghezel Hessar Prison in the city of Karaj in preparation for their imminent executions.

The transfer of these 16 is taking place while just two days ago, on May 21, eleven prisoners were hanged in this prison.

According to the statement of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the Iranian regime executed 37 people from May 19 to 21 in prisons or the streets of various cities.

Just in May 20 and 21, a total of 24 prisoners were executed in three collective hangings in Ghezel Hessar and Gohardasht prisons in Karaj.

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