HRANA News Agency – It was announced to at least a hundred death row prisoners, in prison of Urmia that in the next three months their “case” will become clear. This rare action has created a wave of concern among prisoners and their families.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), recently, the authorities of Urmia Prison called at least a hundred prisoners who have been sentenced to death on charges of “murder” and have served more than 5 years, to the prison’s Pray Hall (Hosseinieh) and took the address and details of the plaintiffs.

An informed source in a conversation with HRANA, by announcing this news, also said: “The authorities of Urmia prison called these prisoners in Husseinieh and asked the address and details of their accusers. At least about one hundred prisoners were called.”

The source said: “They were told that during the next three months their case would become clear. The authorities said: ‘We will say to plaintiffs to ask for execution or we will release you on the bail. Because, the prison does not have enough space.’”

It should be mentioned that, the unusual procedure of calling a large number of death row prisoners caused a wave of concern among prisoners in Urmia prison and their families.