Opposition sources in Iran claim that the regime has executed at least 115 people in the last two weeks.

According to these sources, 30 prisoners were hanged in Iran between 22-26 April.

On 22 April, 9 people were executed together in the Vekil Abad Prison in Shiraz, while on 23 April 16 persons were executed in the cities of Bander Abbas, Jirof and Kerman according to the same sources. On 25 and 26 April three more prisoners were executed in Zencan and Abhar. Between 13-26 April a total of 115 were executed, according to opposition figures, while the real numbers are said to be higher as Iran rarely publicly announces executions. It is also said that a large group of prisoners was executed secretly in the city of Arak. International agencies note that the real number of executions may be much higher than the figures they could obtain for their reports. But while Iran pursues negotiations with the western powers on its nuclear programme, executions and increasing violations of rights in Iran are off the agenda of western

governments. Iran carries out detentions on the grounds of acting against the social order or of not fulfilling the so called requirements of the dress code determined by the regime, while it continues to carry out extreme rights violations, tortures and border executions.

These violations include eye gouging, amputations of hands and feet and stoning to death.