The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) have reported that political prisoner Mohammad Abdollahi was executed along with five other prisoners in Orumieh (Urmia), north-west Iran.

The Evening Standard has reported that “hordes of protesters” are entering the final day of a hunger strike outside Downing Street. Their efforts are a bid to convince the government to condemn the “horrific” spate of executions that are being carried out in Iran.

The Independent has reported that protesters have staged a mock execution outside Downing Street as they enter the last day of their hunger strike. They want to pressure the UK government to condemn the horrifying executions that take place in Iran.

Metro.co.uk has published an article about the three day hunger strike that is taking place outside Downing Street. The campaigners are protesting the deaths of at least 20 Sunni inmates at Gohardasht Prison near Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday and they are calling on the government to condemn the mass execution. They highlight that the mass execution coincided with the anniversary of the state-sanctioned killing of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988.

In an article from the National Council for Resistance of Iran on August 5 reports that their supporters in the Anglo-Iranian community in the United Kingdom plan to stage a sit-in protest on the anniversary of the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran in 1988.

In an article on August 5, the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein condemned the execution of 20 people in Iran this week for purported terrorism-related offenses.