18 prisoners hanged in 3 different prisons in 1 day
4-December-2014
Category: executions
Breathing in Confinement – 3 prisoners in the Central Prison of Bandar Abbas, and 11 prisoners in Ghezelhesar, Karaj prison, were executed by the gallows on December 3rd.
Accourding to a report by HRANA, Ali Akbar Nooreddini, Alireza Ghorbani and Hossein Shahoo zehi were executed due to drug-related charges at the Central Prison of Bandar Abbas.
Also, in Ghezelhesar prison 11 prisoners on drug-related charges were executed by hanging, same day in early morning.
Since 2 days ago, a big number of prisoners in Unit 2 of Ghezalhesar prison have gone on hunger strike and the strikers have faced a various reaction by the prison’s officials including the threat of mass executions of prisoners.
It is to say that, “Breathing in Confinement” had already announced the execution of 4 prisoners, including a woman in the early morning of the 2nd December at the Central Prison of Uremia.