NCRI – A 30-year-old women prisoner identified as Gilan Mohammadi and an Afghan national, Gholamali Eskandari, are sentenced to death by stoning. Both are awaiting their sentences to be carried out in Isfahan prison central Iran.
 
Despite much smoke screening by the mullahs' judiciary last month regarding the commuting of all such rulings, there has not been any change made in these two cases.

In July 2007, the Iranian regime caused international outrage when Jafar Kiani was stoned to death in the northwestern city of Qazvin.  

A man and a woman -- Abbas H. and Mahbubeh A. -- were also stoned to death in May 2006 in the northeastern city of Mashhad, although their execution has never been officially confirmed.

On February 4, the mullahs' Supreme Court upheld the death sentence by stoning of two sisters Zohreh (27) and Azar (28) Kabiri-Neyat in the notorious Gohardasht (Rajaishahr) prison in Karaj some 40 km west of the capital Tehran.

Similarly, in the winter of 2007, the death sentence by stoning of a 49-year-old man named Abdullah Farivar was upheld by the Supreme Court in the northern city of Sari. The man has two children.

NCRI – The mullahs' Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for a 17-year-old boy named Hossein for an alleged crime he committed when 14, reported the state-run daily Etemaad on Wednesday.

In his court sessions, he denied committing a crime. However, the lower court refused to accept his claim and ruled against him.
According to rights groups, 140 minors are awaiting the death penalty in Iran. Twenty-four human rights organizations around the world – including NGOs from Egypt, Yemen, Morocco, Turkey, Bahrain and Iran itself – launched an appeal on July 8 to Teheran authorities to suspend the executions and commute the prison sentences. Across the globe, voices have been raised to ban the death penalty for minors once and for all in Iran.

“These executions are contrary to international law which bans capital punishment for minors, however serious their crimes,” said Bernard Boeton of Terre des Hommes during a press conference in Geneva on July 8. “Iran has signed and ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International covenant on civil and political rights. No other reason, whether religious or cultural, can prevail over international treaties.”

NCRI – The mullahs' regime hanged a prisoner without identifying him in the northern city of Sari, reported the state-run daily Iran on Thursday.

Another prisoner arrested with the man hanged today was executed in March while a third one received life imprisonment. 

The mullahs' regime executed more people than any other country in the world per capita so far this year.
 
The European Parliament (EP) expressed deep concern over human right violations in Iran especially execution of juveniles on September 4.

"Having regard to the Declaration of 29 July, 2008, by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the execution of 29 people in Evin prison in Iran,

Having regard to Council declaration of 25 August 2008 on the execution by hanging of Reza Hejazi,
Having regard to the statement of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union on the imminent execution of Behnood Shojaee and of Bahman Soleimanian on 19 and 28 August 2008," the final statement said.

NCRI – The State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police – beat up a 60-year-old man for smoking in public in the western city of Khorramabad.

SSF agents paid no attention to the man who was shouting that he had just arrived in the city and did not mean any harm.

Shop keepers and onlookers stepped in to get the man freed. The local residents also tried to help the man by booing the SSF agents.

With the start of Ramadan last week in Iran, harsh treatment of those breaking the fast has added to people's problems with the mullahs' regime.

In a figure given by the deputy chief of the SSF on Tuesday, nearly 26,000 citizens have already received warring citations for breaking their fast in the streets.

In a directive issued a few days before Ramadan, the SSF ruled that no one is allowed to consume food or beverages in public.