Death row prisoners Mostafa Salehi and Jamshid Karimi were executed today for “premeditated murder” in Sanandaj Central Prison in north-west Iran. The two prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 13 May. Karimi’s death sentence was initially suspended after the victim’s family agreed to receive 40 billion Iranian rials – nearly 80,000 USD – in “blood money”. After being returned to the general ward of…
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Iran executed prisoners Kioumars Menbari and Saeid Arjmandi at Sanandaj Central Prison on 14 May on charges of “premeditated murder”. The two prisoners were moved to solitary confinement on 11 May for execution. Manbari was a father of three from Kamyaran, Kurdistan province, and Arjmandi was from Khorramabad and a resident of Sanandaj, Kurdistan province.
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Prisoner Mohammad Saber Payamian, sentenced to death for “premeditated murder”, was executed in Kermanshah Central Prison (also known as Dizel Abad Prison), in western Iran, on 10 May. Payamian, 34, from Eslamabad-e Gharb in Kermanshah province, was arrested last year. He was sentenced to death for “premeditated murder” under the Islamic law of qisas, or retribution-in-kind, which grants the victim’s family the right to retaliate. On 5…
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Iran executed today prisoners Abdolhossein Emami Moghaddam, Hossein Panjak and Babak Aghaei for drug-related offences in Qezel Hesar Prison in Karaj. After the death row prisoners were moved to solitary confinement on 9 May, their families and loved ones gathered outside the prison throughout the evening and into the early hours of the morning, calling for a halt to the executions. Security forces fired tear gas…
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Prisoners Abdolhossein Emami Moghaddam and Hossein Panjak who were sentenced to death on drug-related charges, were today transferred to solitary confinement in Qezel Hesar Prison in Karaj for execution. Emami Moghaddam, from Kuhdasht in the province of Lorestan, was arrested about 13 years ago, and Panjak, from Tehran, about 10 years ago.
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Death row prisoners Salaheddin Majidi and Abdollah Khan-Mohammadi were executed today for drug-related offences in Salmas Prison in north-west Iran. On 4 May, they were transferred to solitary confinement for execution. The two prisoners, who come from the village of Haftvan in Salmas, West Azerbaijan province, were arrested about three years ago and sentenced to death on drug-related charges.
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Prisoners Salaheddin Majidi and Abdollah Khan-Mohammadi, sentenced to death on drug-related charges, were transferred to solitary confinement in Salmas Prison for execution on 4 May. The two prisoners, who come from the village of Haftvan in Salmas, West Azerbaijan province, were arrested about three years ago and sentenced to death on drug-related charges.
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Iran executed today prisoner Faramarz Shakhsi for drug-related offences in Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan province. Shakhsi, 29, was a father of two from the village of Nalas in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan province. He was arrested several years ago and sentenced to death on drug-related charges.
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Prisoner Jalaladdin Rahimian-Azar, sentenced to death on drug-related charges, was executed in Rasht Central Prison in northern Iran on 4 May. Rahimian-Azar, 23, from Mahabad, West Azerbaijan province, was arrested several years ago and sentenced to death.
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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.