The Iranian regime announced the executions of 14 people in the fourth month of 2011, while there were reports of 4 executions not announced by the regime. Iran set a new record in public executions by hanging 9 people in public in the month of April. According to Amnesty International, two of those hanged in public were juvenile offenders.

Students at Amir Kabir University in Tehran staged large protests on Wednesday in reaction to the Iranian regime’s suppressive security measures on campus, according to Daneshjou News on Thursday.

A day later, hundreds of students at Soureh University also protested the regime’s repressive measures.

Iran has killed juvenile offenders such as Delara Darabi, who was executed in 2009

27 April 2011

Amnesty International has condemned a sharp rise in the rate of executions in public in Iran – which have included the first executions of juvenile offenders in the world this year.

Since the start of 2011, up to 13 men have been hanged in public, compared to 14 such executions recorded by Amnesty International from official Iranian sources in the whole of 2010. Eight of those executions have taken place since 16 April 2011.

 After the uprising of the desperate people of Ahwaz city, the atmosphere in the city continues to be highly charged and the religious dictatorship has stationed large numbers of suppressive forces at various points throughout the city, enforcing an undeclared martial law.