The HRANA group has reported that early morning on March 14th, an Armenian-Jewish couple along with a women and two men were secretly hanged in Evin prison.
The shift office in branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court confirmed the five executions, but refused to offer any explanation on the details about the bodies of the couple and the location of their burial.
The people executed are: Adiva Soleyman, an Iranian Jew, her husband Varjan Petrosian, an Iranian-Armenian, one women and two men unidentified. There is no information on the charges of the defendants.
The relatives of the executed couple who were planning to hold the funeral and burial ceremonies based on their [religious] customs, were threatened with arrest by security and intelligence forces.
Translation by Siavosh Jalili, Persian2English
