Hangings in recent days: prone to create fear against possible 1 May protests

AFP - April 19, 2010
Iran has hanged four convicted drug traffickers and a rapist in a prison in the southern city of Kerman, the ISNA news agency reported on Monday.
The report identified the executed drug traffickers only as Mehdi N., Feizollah B., Nazar B., Alam H. They were convicted for trafficking hundreds of kilos (pounds) of narcotics.
Another man, Hossein S., was also hanged after being convicted of rape, the report added.
ISNA did not give the date of the latest hangings, which bring to at least 47 the number of people executed in Iran so far this year, according to an AFP count based on news reports


Human Rights Activists in Iran – April 19, 2010

The Afghanistan government has announced that six of its nationals were recently executed in Iran. According to this report, the Afghanistan National Security Council said that the bodies of four of these people were transferred to Afghanistan on April 5 and April 16 via the Islam Qal'eh border region.
According to reports, they were hanged on charges of drug trafficking

AFP - April 20, 2010

Iran has hanged two convicted rapists in a prison in the central city of Isfahan, the governmental Iran newspaper reported Tuesday.
The report identified the executed men as Ahmad and Soleiman and added that they were sent to the gallows on Monday.