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Iran’s killing spree of innocent prisoners increasing

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blockquoteemThe radicalIslamic governmentof Iran is reportedlyexecuting prisoners at an alarming rate, according to International Campaign for Human Rights. Iran is suspected of executing one person every eight hours. Since the beginning of 2011, Iran has executed 87 people on various charges.emblockquoteimg classalignleft stylemarginleft 10px marginright 10px srchttpcdn2b.examiner.comsitesdefaultfilesstyleslargehash851885186730788ae860d34a3d1c6ba4da2f.jpg alt width210 height163 While the international news media and government officialsare preoccupied with events occurring in Egypt, the Iranian governments execution ofa DutchIranian woman government officials claimed was involved in drug smuggling has created a firestorm in Amsterdam, Hollandover the weekend.Those who knew Miss Bahrami, 46,claim the drug charges were bogus, andpolice officials in The Netherlands say that she was originally arrested for participating in antigovernment protests two years ago when civil unrest in Iranfollowed accusations of a corrupt presidential election.After being arrested and processed on charges of sedition, the Iranian government allegedly changed the records to show Bahrami was arrested for cocaine smuggling and possession, a capital offense in that Islamist nation.Uri Rosenthal, Hollands foreign minister,blasted governmentofficials inTehran for not granting the executedwomans relativesentry into Iran toburyBahrami. Instead of turningoverher remainsto her relatives, the Iranianofficials secretlytook Bahramis body more than200 milesoutside of the Iranian capitaland held her last rites and burialceremony without her relatives in attendance.This is a shocking fact which bears upon the regime which does not meet the normal standards of civilized behavior towards citizens and foreigners, Rosenthal said.Bahrami, a naturalized Dutch citizen, was hanged on January 29 after being convicted ofthe drug offense.Iranian prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadialleges that an unspecified amount ofcocaine was found in a search of her temporaryresidence during the countrys national elections in 2009.Her executionnine says agoprompted the Dutch government to freeze all contact with what it labeled a barbarous regime.Meanwhile, two American citizens who claim they accidentally wandered into Iran last year are still being held in Iran. While the government released their female companion, Sarah Shourd, 31, her boyfriend Shane Bauer, 27, and a friend, Josh Fattal, 27, remain captives accused of being foreign spies.The radicalIslamic governmentof Iran is reportedlyexecutingmen and womenat ashockingly highrate, according to officials with theInternational Campaign for Human Rights. The ICHR claimsIran executesat least threeprisoners every24 hours.Many of those given the death penaltyare political prisoners who oppose the rule of Islamic clericsin Iran.According to Aaron Rhodes of International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, The Iranian Judiciary is on an execution binge orchestrated by the intelligence and security agencies.Iranian judges are widely believed to lack independence and their decisions are frequently subordinated to the wishes of security agencies. Also, the actual number of prisoners executed in Iran is difficult to verify but many believe is higher than is reported.Iranian prisons are often the scenes of mass execution such as in January whenmore than ahundred people were executed in a mass hanging injust one Iranianprison, according to International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. The high rate of executions in Iran has prompted the United Nations orderIran to halt its execution of prisoners, but Iran continues its hardline approach to criminal justice and law enforcement.EvenIranians with dual citizenships or permanent residency abroad have been arrested, sentenced to death by Iranian courts, and then summarilyexecuted.In a case that outraged the worldsjournalists in 2003, an IranianCanadian journalisttaken into custody by the secret policewaslater murdered by Iranian security agents while in a Tehran prison, according to Canadian police officials. The reporter,Zahra Kazemi, was brutally tortured andsexually assaultedby herinterrogators.