IRAN Weekly HR report (December 23, 2012) :(Execution)

Iran hangs six drug smugglers, rapist: report

http://www.france24.com/en/20121220-iran-hangs-six-drug-smugglers-rapist-report

An Iranian policeman guards opium seized from drug smugglers during a ceremony in Iran's southeastern city of Zahedan on May 20, 2009. Iran has hanged seven men, six of them for drug trafficking and another for rape, in prison in the central province of Isfahan, Kayhan newspaper reported on Thursday.
AFP - Iran has hanged seven men, six of them for drug trafficking and another for rape, in prison in the central province of Isfahan, Kayhan newspaper reported on Thursday.
The seven, aged 25 to 45, were executed on Wednesday, the province's public prosecutor, Mohammad Reza Habibi, said in the report.
"One of the smugglers was charged with armed trafficking of more than 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of opium," Habibi said. "The others were in possession of crack and heroin (weighing) between one and 65 kilograms."
The Islamic state, where murder, rape, armed robbery, drug trafficking and adultery are punishable by death, has one of the highest annual number of executions in the world, alongside China, Saudi Arabia and the United States.
Amnesty International has condemned the executions, but Tehran says the death penalty is essential to maintain law and order and that is is enforced only after exhaustive judicial proceedings.

One prisoner was hanged in central Iran
http://iranhr.net/spip.php?article2656
Iran Human Rights, December 17, 2012: One prisoner was hanged in Kashan (central Iran) today, reported the Iranian state media.
The Iranian state broadcasting reported a prisoner convicted of smuggling and trafficking narcotics was hanged in Kashan prison early this morning. Quoting the deputy commander of the Isfahan security forces "Karmi",the report said: "The prisoner was arrested in 2009 and charged with possessing and selling 681 grams of crack".
The prisoner was not identified by name in the report.


Six Capital Punishments Confirmed in Salmas, Iran
Saturday, 22 December 2012
http://www.en-hrana.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=747:1&catid=15:execution&Itemid=10
HRANA News Agency – Execution verdicts of six prisoners in Salmas, convicted of drug trafficking has been confirmed by Supreme Court and they are in danger of execution.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Habib Mamadi, Akram Mamadi, Sami Mamadi, Samad Mamadi, Karim Mamadi and Firouz Hassanzadeh, from Hablaran and Ghezel Kand villages in Salmas convicted of drug trafficking are sentenced to death.
There are two more citizens from Urmia have been arrested related to this case, but no information about their identities and verdicts.

Salmas is a city along International road and there are so many cases related to drug trafficking resulted in capital punishment.