Ten prisoners were executed today in Iran

Iran Human Rights: According to reliable sources from Iran ten prisoners were executed in two different prisons in Iran, early his morning December 24.

One woman and six men executed in northwestern Iran:

According to Mukrian news agency seven prisoners were executed early this morning in the prison of Urmia (Oroumieh), northwest of Iran. Quoting Mr. Masoud Shams, the lawyer of one of the prisoners, the report said that there was one woman among those executed today. Mr. Shams was not informed about the execution of his client said the report. According to the Iranian laws, the lawyer must be notified about the scheduled execution of the client 48 hours prior to the execution.

According to this report all the seven prisoners executed this morning were convicted of drug trafficking and were identified as "Yousef A.", "Heydar D.", "Mehdi S", "Ghorbanali Sh.", "Saeid M.", "Sirus M." and "Nahid A." (woman).

The official Iranian sources have not confirmed these executions yet. According to reliable sources there have been several executions in the prison of Urmia which have not been confirmed by the official sources.

Two prisoners executed in northern Iran:

According to the "Human rights and democracy activists in Iran" (HRDI) two prisoners were executed in the prison of Rasht (northern Iran) early this morning. Both the prisoners were convicted of drug trafficking. One of the prisoners who was executed was identifies as "Sajjad Tal" (26), brother of "Mohammadreza Tal" who was hanged publicly in Rasht two weeks ago.

Iran Human Rights has previously warned about increased number of executions in Iran during the Christmasand new years holidays.