Iranian authorities executed Kam-Bakhsh Mahmoudi, a man convicted of “premeditated murder”, on 25 September in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province.

Mahmoudi, 34, from the city of Bisotun in Kermanshah Province, was arrested two years ago and sentenced to death.

According to statistics compiled by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), at least seven Kurdish prisoners have been executed in Iranian prisons over the past month, including in Tabriz, Khorramabad, Mahabad, Hamadan, Miandoab and Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj, on charges of murder and drug trafficking.