Thursday, March 5, 2015 2:06:15 PM

Fifteen prisoners whose identities are unknown were hanged on March 4, 2015 for narcotics charges in Ghezel Hesar prison.

Heretofore, some of the prisoners had been taken to the Great Tehran prison that transferred to Ghezel Hesar prison to execution yesterday as HRANA has informed.

On the other hand, six Sunni Kurd prisoners also had been hanged on the charge of Moharebeh, acting against national security and propaganda against the regime of Iran on the same date.

The six prisoners including Hamed Ahmadi, Hadi Husseini, Kamal Mollaei, Sedigh Mohammadi, Jahangir and Jamshid Dehghani were accused of the false charge murdering a senior Sunni cleric with links to the Iranian officials as Human Rights activists have reported.

21 prisoners had been hanged by Republic Islamic of Iran within one day according to the numbers of prisoners that mentioned above.

Human Rights activists have expressed concern about the rise in executions since Rouhani�s inauguration despite his presidential election promises.

By: Kaveh Taheri