URGENT: MORE THAN 20 PRISONERS HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED TO THE EVIN-PRISON IN TEHRAN TO BE EXECUTED TOMORROW

Iran Human Rights, January 29: According to reliable sources, more than 20 prisoners have been transferred from teh Rajaee-Shahr (Gohardasht) prison to Tehran’s Evin prison for execution tomorrow morning. This is a normal routine in tehran, that those who are scheduled to be executed, are transferred to the Evin prison the day before. The same happened when Rahele Zamani, the mother of two young children was executed on January 2.

We still don’t have the final list of those scheduled to be executed. Human rights activists are worried that several minor offenders could be among those to be executed tomorrow. The death sentences of several minors has been approved by the Supreme Court, and transferred to the section for the implementation of the verdic (Ejraye Ahkam) in tha past weeks.