Prisoners Sasan Farzipour and Mohammad Bagher Bazgir were executed on murder-related offences in Parsiloun Prison in Khorramabad, Lorestan Province, on 30 September. The prisoners had been transferred to solitary confinement in Parsiloun Prison several days before their execution. Bazgir, a resident of Khorramabad, was arrested in 2021 on charges of the “premeditated murder” of a cleric and was sentenced to death. Similarly, Farzipour, born in 1992 in…
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Prisoner Vafa Kharamani was executed for “premeditated murder” at Saqqez Prison on 27 August. The young man was arrested in the village of Qaplantu in Saqqez in May 2021 and was sentenced to death on charges of “premeditated murder”. In July, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) documented the execution of at least 12 prisoners in Orumiyeh, Kermanshah, Naqadeh, Karaj and Hamadan prisons.
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Iran today executed prisoners Rahman Ebrahimi, Kiyoumars Rezaei and Behrouz Rahmani on drug-related charges at Karaj’s Ghezel Hesar Prison. The three prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 22 August. Kiyoumars Rezaei and Rahman Ebrahimi were both from Kuhdasht, Lorestan Province, and were arrested about a decade ago and sentenced to death in a joint case related to drugs. Another co-defendant in their case, Moslem…
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Death row prisoner Shorash Morovvati was executed today on charges of “premeditated murder” in Sanandaj Central Prison in Kurdistan Province. On 1 October 2022, during the prisoners’ protests in Sanandaj prison, Morovvati was tortured by prison guards and transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre. In July, after 10 months of interrogation and torture by the Ministry of Intelligence, he was returned to prison. On 14…
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Prisoner Saeid Biranvand was executed for murder-related charges on 13 August in Parsiloun Prison in Khorramabad, Lorestan Province. Biranvand, who comes from the village of Bid Gijeh in Khorramabad, was arrested about five years ago on charges of “premeditated murder”. His death sentence was handed down under the Islamic law of qisas, or retribution-in-kind, which gives the victim’s family the right to retaliate.
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Shorash Morovvati, a death row prisoner who was returned to Sanandaj Central Prison last month after spending 10 months in the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre, was moved to solitary confinement for execution on 14 August. An informed source that spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) said: “Shorash Morovvati was transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre by security agencies and the…
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Iran executed prisoner Afshin Rahimi-Hedayat on drug-related charges in Hamadan Central Prison in Hamadan Province on 10 August. Rahimi-Hedayat and another death row prisoner were moved to solitary confinement in recent days for execution. There is no information about the identity and the situation of the other prisoner. Rahimi-Hedayat, 30, from Kangavar in Kermanshah Province, was arrested about four years ago and sentenced to death for drug-related…
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Prisoners Manouchehr Khazaei and Ahad Hashemi were executed on drug-related charges in Hamadan Central Prison in Hamadan Province on 9 August. Khazaei, a former law enforcement personnel, and Hashemi, from Harsin, Kermanshah Province, were separately arrested and subsequently sentenced to death in two distinct cases involving drug-related offenses. On 7 August, the two prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement with a third prisoner for execution. However, the…
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Iran today executed prisoner Ahad Hashemi on drug-related charges at Hamadan Central Prison in Hamadan Province. Hashemi, from Harsin, Kermanshah Province, was moved to solitary confinement for execution on 7 August. Hashemi was arrested around seven years ago and sentenced to death by Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Hamadan.
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The Kurdistan Human Rights Network’s (KHRN) recent investigations have revealed numerous cases of human rights violations against Kurdish civilians and activists from Iran in August 2023.
Our Documentation and Statistics Centre has compiled a comprehensive report on the various violations perpetrated against these individuals, which we present in this monthly report.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network’s (KHRN) recent investigations have revealed numerous cases of human rights violations against Kurdish civilians and activists from Iran in August 2023.
Our Documentation and Statistics Centre has compiled a comprehensive report on the various violations perpetrated against these individuals, which we present in this monthly report.
Executions
According to these findings, Iran executed at least 13 prisoners over the past month in Sanandaj, Saqqez, Khorramabad, Karaj, Hamadan, and Dezful.
While three prisoners were executed on charges of “premeditated murder”, 10 were executed for drug-related offences.
These are the executions of which the KHRN has been informed by its sources. However, the number of those executed is likely to be higher.
Kolbars and tradesmen
In August, at least four kolbars were killed and 16 were injured in the country’s western border areas.
Of these, 18 were shot by Iranian border guards and one was killed after he was hit by a military vehicle of the border forces.
In addition, one kolbar was injured after being shot by Iraqi border forces in the Choman border of Baneh on 7 August.
Killings of civilians
On 17 August, a Kurdish soldier from Maku, West Azerbaijan Province, was shot dead at a military base in Qasr-e Shirin, Kermanshah Province.
Work accidents
Over the past month, at least six workers lost their lives in work accidents in Qasr-e Shirin, Tabriz, Saqqez, Maku, Javanrud and Ilam.
Detentions and arrests
Throughout August, Iranian forces arrested at least 60 civilians, including activists, journalists, Kurdish Sunni clerics and two children.
Two of these civilians were detained to serve prison sentences in Ilam and Naqadeh.
Prison sentences
Over the past month, Iranian courts sentenced at least 10 people to prison terms ranging from six months to a total of 16 and a half years.
Half of these sentences were handed down by Branch 101 of the Criminal Court of Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province.