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…
Read moreIran 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…
Read morePrisoners 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…
Read moreIran 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.
Read morePrisoners Mohammad Javad Akbari, Sharif Akbari and Kianoush Teymouri were executed today for drug-related offences in Parsiloun Prison of Khorramabad, Lorestan province. The three prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 29 July. Mohammad Javad Akbari and Kianoush Teymouri were from Kuhdasht, Lorestan province, and Sharif Akbari was from Nurabad, Lorestan province.
Read morePrisoners Saeid Almasi and Habibollah Ilkhani were executed on 18 July in Hamadan Central Prison, in Hamadan province, and Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Kermanshah province. Almasi, a 41-year-old father of one from Harsin, Kermanshah province, was arrested in 2017 and sentenced to death for drug-related charges. Ilkhani, from Nowdeshah in Paveh, Kermanshah province, was arrested 12 years ago and sentenced to death for “premeditated murder”.
Read moreIran today executed prisoners Seyyed Mansour Seyyedi, Moslem Havasi and Siamak Hayatbini on drug-related charges at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj. On 17 July, the three prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement along with another prisoner for execution. While the three were executed, the fourth prisoner was returned to his ward. Seyedi, a resident of Tehran, was arrested about 12 years ago, while Havasi and Hayatbini, both…
Read moreIran today executed Sangar Khezri, a prisoner sentenced to death on drug-related charges, in Naqadeh prison. Khezri, a father of two from Nalas, West Azerbaijan province, was sentenced to death about two years ago. He was transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 16 July. Tasnim News Agency, affiliated to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reported that Khezri had been executed. The news agency also reported that…
Read moreIran executed prisoner Hossein Dolkhani for “premeditated murder” in Orumiyeh Central Prison on 13 July. Dolkhani, from Showt in West Azerbaijan province, was arrested in 2017 and sentenced to death for the “premeditated murder” of his sister.
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