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From 2010 to 2015 I was incarcerated in Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, the Tennessee prison that houses death row for the men’s system. On one side of a gate, 250 of us lived in a “support staff” unit working maintenance, landscaping, kitchen service or whatever else kept the facility operational. On the other side of the gate were maximum-security prisoners and those in protective custody, and a unit just for the condemned.

Iran: 17 prisoners executed in Karaj, Bandar Abbas and Shahr-e-Kord

The anti-human mullahs' regime hanged three prisoners in the central prison of Bandar Abbas (southern Iran) on Sunday morning, June 8.

The day prior to that, the henchmen had transferred these 3 prisoners to the solitary confinement of quarantine ward and had enchained their hands and legs to the cell wall.

On Saturday, June 7, 4 prisoners were collectively hanged in the Shahr-e-Kord Prison. At dawn on Sunday, June 1, simultaneously with the execution of PMOI member Gholamreza Khosravi, the anti-human clerical regime secretly hanged 8 other prisoners in the Karaj Gohardasht Prison.

On the same day, another prisoner was executed in the prison of Semnan (central Iran).

Mullahs' regime resort to brutal death penalty, particularly the execution of political prisoners, demonstrates the clerical regime's fear from spread of the popular protests and is aimed at creating fear and intimidation among the people.

Source: Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, June 10, 2014

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Photographing the Community on Tennessee’s Death Row