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Iran: Another 30 Hanged At Vakilabad Prison On Drug Charges
Eurasia Review/Radio Zamaneh ^ | July 16, 2011

Posted on 07/17/2011 8:41:28 PM PDT by nuconvert

Iranian authorities have hanged another 30 prisoners at Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad on drug-related charges, says the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.

The campaign cites “local knowledgeable sources” saying 12 prisoners were executed on Wednesday June 29 and another 18 were hanged on the following Sunday.

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran say the executions once again were carried out in secret and en masse, with no prior notification of families and attorneys and no official announcement from the judiciary.

The report indicates that on June 29, the judiciary announced the execution of one convicted murderer but made no reference to the execution of 12 prisoners on drug charges.

On June 15 another 25 prisoners were reportedly executed en masse at Vakilabad Prison without any official announcement

The campaign maintains that hundreds of prisoners have been executed in secret at Vakilabad Prison over the past two years, but Mashhad’s prosecutor general has responded by saying the media has exaggerated the scale of executions at Vakilabad. Mahmoud Zoghi has said that Mashhad has a high rate of drug crime because of its proximity to the Afghanistan border. This, according to the prosecutor, is what drives up the execution rate in the Khorasan Razavi Province compared to other regions of Iran.

Reports of mass executions in Vakilabad Prison have caused grave concern for human rights groups, and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon made direct reference to them in March in his report on human rights violations in Iran.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; mashhad; regime; vakilabadprison
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1 posted on 07/17/2011 8:41:39 PM PDT by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert

Just another day in the jolly ol’ Islamic Republic of Iran.


2 posted on 07/17/2011 8:47:42 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: nuconvert

HUH! Their War on Drugs seems to be working?


3 posted on 07/17/2011 8:47:42 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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To: nuconvert
BBC June 16, 2004...

"Iran has the highest proportion of heroin addicts in the world and a growing Aids problem."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_world/3791889.stm

4 posted on 07/17/2011 8:51:01 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: nuconvert

Scenes from upcoming attractions:

The left’s drug culture and homosexual culture . . . vs. radical Islam.


5 posted on 07/17/2011 9:06:56 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (EX Congressman Anthony Weiner: "Celebrate 'Perversity'")
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To: Ken H

“Iran has the highest proportion of heroin addicts in the world and a growing Aids problem.”

Now if these people actually was guilty of selling heroin and drugs like that, good riddance to bad rubbish, I would suport the death penalty for dealers to kids any time


6 posted on 07/17/2011 9:37:49 PM PDT by munin ( So, which of these winners called the cops and generated public costs?)
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To: nuconvert

I’ll bet you a beer there’s no repeat offenders.


7 posted on 07/17/2011 9:47:12 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are...)
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To: nuconvert

Too bad we can’t send all our death row inmates over there.


8 posted on 07/17/2011 10:12:23 PM PDT by CharlesOK
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To: CharlesOK

Reminds me of that scene in TAKEN’ when Liam neeson while “shocking” the thug, “you know, we used to outsource this kind of thing, but the current in 3rd world countries wasn’t that dependable..”


9 posted on 07/17/2011 10:31:10 PM PDT by max americana (FUBO NATION 2012 FK BARAK)
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To: nuconvert

Nothing an tyrannical psychotic government like Iran says can be believed. Period.


10 posted on 07/18/2011 1:44:06 AM PDT by microgood
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To: nuconvert

A drug war that works, get buyers and seller gone.


11 posted on 07/18/2011 2:28:32 AM PDT by org.whodat
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So how can Iran execute 10,000¹ in a decade and still have the highest rate of addiction in the world?

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¹Iran has executed more than 10,000 narcotics traffickers in the last decade;

http://www.payvand.com/news/04/mar/1012.html

Source: U.S. Department of State 03/04/2004

12 posted on 07/18/2011 2:58:34 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: Ken H

Yes, but the repeat offender class is really low.


13 posted on 07/18/2011 3:32:43 AM PDT by org.whodat
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To: nuconvert

I am suspecting this is a cover to hang some freedom-loving activists?


14 posted on 07/18/2011 5:35:23 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: rawhide

Yes, it’s suspect alright


15 posted on 07/18/2011 5:44:28 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: org.whodat
Let's say you're being eaten alive by mosquitos. You kill thousands, but for every one you kill, one hundred stand ready to replace it.

Now, do you take comfort in the fact that the dead mosquitos will never bite again? Of course not, unless you're stupid!

16 posted on 07/18/2011 6:25:54 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: Ken H

Let’s say you are on drugs and you want to make a stupid argument. Well damn you succeeded.


17 posted on 07/18/2011 6:31:39 AM PDT by org.whodat
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To: nuconvert

"Well damn, there goes my spot in the Guinness Book..."

18 posted on 07/18/2011 6:37:21 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: org.whodat
No one can outdo a drug warrior in the stupid argument department. It's one of many reasons the wod is headed for the underside of the bus.
19 posted on 07/18/2011 6:42:16 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: Ken H

No your bug story is right there on top for stupid. And I am all for ending the war on drugs, at the same time, we must end the maggots that think it is my job to pay and clean up after them. You want to use drugs, fine, you live in the gutter and you will not be allowed to breed and when the waste department finds your body it goes to the city dump with the rest of the garbage. And if I catch you stealing off of me I get the first shot no questions ask.


20 posted on 07/18/2011 6:50:58 AM PDT by org.whodat
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