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Iran Focus
 London, Jun. 26 – A political prisoner
was hanged in Tehran after serving 10 years behind bars,
Persian-language websites reported on Monday.
The man, identified as Saleh Mahmoudi
Gouilani, was hanged in a prison in the
north-western city of Orumieh on Saturday, according
to the reports.
Gouilani along with two other individuals were
accused of killing an agent of the security forces during an armed clash in
the nearby town of Sardasht.
Gouilani’s two alleged accomplices were identified
as Aziz Kholkani and Masoud Shokeh. The report said
that they were both executed several months ago after serving nine years in
prison.
In February, the human rights group Amnesty International announced that it
had “grave concern” about the “alarming rate” of executions in Iran, in
particular highlighting the cases of a number of political prisoners, several
of whom are on death row.
Hojjat Zamani, a
political prisoner in Iran
since 2001, was hanged in Gohardasht Prison on
February 7 for being a member of the People’s Mojahedin
Organisation of Iran (PMOI). The regime applied
severe psychological torture on Zamani, 31, to
break his morale and compel him to express remorse on television.
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