Ghanaian, Africans executed in Iranian prisons - Amnesty International
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21-Dec-2011 (one comment)

In its latest report Amnesty International says at least one Ghanaian was confirmed killed last year in a mass execution at the Vakilabad Prison in Iran’s second largest city of Mashhad, in the north-east of the country. 



The report dubbed Addicted to Death: Execution for drug offences in Iran paints a grim picture of human right violations in Iranian prisons. 



It says Iranian authorities had reported the arrest of 85 Africans from Nigeria, Tanzania and Ghana in March 2007 but did not make public their alleged executions. 



A Ghanaian by name Akwasi Aquwabe is said to have been killed in the Vakilabad Prison but Ghanaian diplomats were not given any notice of his execution. 



The killing of drug suspects is said to have soared after Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatolla Khomeini instructed the country’s judiciary to speed up the punishment of criminals. 

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Simorgh5555

Ghanaian, Africans executed in Iranian prisons

by Simorgh5555 on Wed Dec 21, 2011 03:03 PM PST

Clear tit-for-tat retaliation for Nigeria and Ghana having intercepted massive shipments of arms used for terror. 


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