According to the official Iranian news agency IRNA, Jamshidi, the speaker of the Iranian judiciary, said that Ayatollah Shahroudi, head of the judiciary, has given order to stop public executions, unless in special cases. He has also banned the media from publishing pictures from the executions.

This seem to be the direct result of the international pressure and attention towards the increasing number of the executions in Iran which forced the Iranian authorities to stop the public hanginings and to restrict the media coverage of the executions to prevent the news leak the outside world. Few days ago, in response to SCE’s urgent calls, 42 EU countries strongly condemned Iran’s surge in execution orders

Info provided by: Iran Human Rights