Two more people hanged in IranImage Credit source: ANI
People are being hanged continuously in Iran. In this episode, two people were hanged on Monday as well. He was accused of blasphemy. This news has come to the fore by Iran News Agency Mizan. On the other hand, the names of the two people who were hanged are Yusuf Mehrdad and Sadrullah Fazeli Jare.
Both of them were arrested three years before today i.e. in May 2020 and were sentenced to death in April 2021. He was sentenced to death for running an anti-Islamic group and channel. Earlier, after their arrest, both were neither allowed to talk nor meet their family for 8 months.
Part of Telegram group criticizing superstition and religion
At the same time, according to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, both were part of a telegram group criticizing superstition and religion and due to this they were sentenced to death.
last year’s hunger strike
According to reports, the US Commission told that Yusuf Mehrdad had gone on a hunger strike in February last year. The reason was not to let him call anywhere. A few days before this, a person named Habib Chab was sentenced to death. He was accused of running a separatist organization which is allegedly responsible for carrying out terrorist attacks in Iran.
According to the news agency Mizan, Habib Tab was the leader of the Harkat Al Nidal organization. He was hanged on Saturday. He was said to be the mastermind of the attack in Ahvaz in 2018. 29 people had died in that attack. Iran considers Harakat al-Nidal a terrorist organization. The number of executions in Iran has increased significantly in the last few months.