Today,Monday January 4, Three prisoners, who were sentenced to death for drug related crimes, have been transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions, a source from inside Orumiyeh prison said.
The names of three of the prisoners have been identified as :Omar Badri Qala, Farhang Halolani and Hamid Kijini from ward 15.
Sina Mohammadi, a civil rights activist and sociology student from Bolbanabad in Dehgolan County in Kurdistan Province, has been beaten and arrested by security...
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Read MoreThe Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Hatem Ozdemir, a Kurdish political prisoner with Turkish citizenship, on charges of “enmity against God”...
Read MoreSecurity forces have arrested two Kurdish civilians, Aram Sadeghi and Arman Nowshadi, in the cities of Sanandaj and Divandarreh in Kurdistan Province in recent...
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The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Hatem Ozdemir, a Kurdish political prisoner with Turkish citizenship, on charges of "enmity against God" (moharebeh), the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Ozdemir, who was sentenced to death in May by Branch Three of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, has faced charges stemming from his involvement with the Kurdistan Workers'...
Iranian authorities executed Sajjad Bandegi, a man convicted of drug-related offences, on 11 September in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. The prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement for the execution on 10 September. Bandegi, a 35-year-old from Harsin, Kermanshah Province, was arrested in October 2015, along with another man, Foroud Geravand, on charges of drug trafficking. Geravand, from Kuhdasht in Lorestan Province, was executed in...
The Iranian authorities executed Feyzollah Hosseinpour and Soleyman Ghahremani, two prisoners convicted of "premeditated murder", on 9 September in Miandoab Prison in West Azerbaijan Province. The two men were transferred to solitary confinement on 8 September in preparation for their executions. They were sentenced to death after being found guilty of "premeditated murder", a crime punishable by qisas, which gives the victim's family the right to...
Authorities in Hamadan Central Prison executed Saber Jamali, a 29-year-old prisoner from Kangavar in Kermanshah Province, on the morning of 1 September on charges of "premeditated murder". Jamali was arrested three years ago and was subsequently sentenced to death by retribution in kind (qisas) for “premeditated murder”. Qisas or retribution in kind, gives the victim’s family the right to retaliate under Islamic law. According to statistics compiled...
Iran executed two prisoners, Meysam Hossein-Khani and Sirvan Aboubakri, convicted of "premeditated murder", in Khorramabad and Mahabad this week, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. On 28 August, Hossein-Khani, from Kuhdasht in Lorestan Province, was executed in Parsiloun Prison in Khorramabad, Lorestan Province. He was arrested three years ago and was subsequently sentenced to death by retribution in kind (qisas) for "premeditated murder". Qisas or...