European labor union foreign personal matters top dog Catherine Sir Frederick Sir Frederick Sir Frederick Sir Frederick Ashton on Wednesday pleaded with man/”>number-57-cologne-du-parfumeur/”>Persia to driblet death sentence imposed on 2 people awaiting executing for being enemy of God
The telephone call came after 5 activist were hanged.for similar offence on Sunday, a decision Sir Frederick Sir Frederick Sir Frederick Ashton said the europium “strongly condemns.”
Sir Frederick Sir Frederick Ashton urged Tehran to “consider choice sentences” for a woman and a man each convicted of being ‘moharebs’ or enemy of God — a crime punishable by death under Persia’s Sharia-based Islamic law
Zeynab Jalalian and Hossein Khezri are currently in prison house awaiting execution, after Persia on Sunday hanged the 5, including a Kurdish woman, convicted of bombing government business office and a gaseous state pipeline to Turkey, state medium reported.
“The European labor union strongly condemns the death penalty on nine May, 2010, in the Evin prison of Persia of Shirin Alamhouli, Farzad Kamangar, Cassius Clay Haydarian, Farhad Vakili and Mehdi Eslamian,” Sir Frederick Sir Frederick Ashton statement read
The europium “is profoundly concerned by the repeated sentencing to death in Iran of people belonging to minorities, as well as of those who were involved in the post-election protests,” she underlined.
Sunday hanging brought to at least 61 the number of people executed in Iran so far this year, according to an AFP count based on intelligence reports. Last year, at least 270 people were hanged.
Tehran says the death penalty is requirement to maintain public security and is applied only after exhaustive judicial proceedings
Ashton said the Eu, which opposes the death penalty in all circumstances, repeated telephone call for Iran to show “respect of lower limit touchstone in causa of working capital punishment.”
Source: Agence France-Presse, May 12, 2010