Posted on 08/07/2009 5:17:59 AM PDT by nuconvert
TEHRAN — Iran hanged 24 convicted drug traffickers in a prison last week in one of the country's biggest mass executions, the Etemad newspaper reported on Wednesday.
"On Thursday, 24 international drug traffickers were hanged in a prison in Karaj," deputy Tehran prosecutor Mahmoud Salarkia was quoted as saying. "Their execution was approved by the supreme court."
The report did not identify any of those sent to the gallows in Karaj, a town west of Tehran.
The latest hangings bring to at least 219 the number of people executed in the Islamic republic so far this year, according to an AFP count based on news reports.
They were the second such executions in about a month in the same prison, where the Iranian authorities hanged 20 drug traffickers on July 4.
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RRiiigghhttt .......
Yeah, I give zero credence to any purported judicial proceeding in that hellhole, even those dealing with “obvious” evils. Even China is easier to believe.
Iran can’t be trusted to tell the truth about who they are executing. These poor prople were probably protesters of the recent election.
Let me guess, these “drug trafficers” just happened - by coincidence - to also protest Ahmanutjob and the mullahs, right?
they were drug traffickers who didn’t want to share their drugs with Achmadinejad.
All Christians and Non-Devout mushlums no doubt.
It’s my understanding that there are over a million and a half junkies just in Iran. It’s a cheap way to forget where they are.
“Drug trafficker”, “rapist”, “adulterer”, “homosexual”... the standard charges made against anyone the regime wants to get rid of.
Well, how should one take this read? Islamic Iran is working or not working? Either way, does not look good!!
I see why MrLeRoy never goes to Iran.
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