Prisoners Eghbal Fathollahi, Mohsen Emraei, and Shahram Mohammad-Beygi were executed today on charges related to “drug trafficking” and “premeditated murder” in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, and Ilam Central Prison in Ilam Province. Emraei, Fathollahi and a third prisoner, whose identity remains unknown, were transferred to solitary confinement in Ghezel Hesar Prison on 27 November. Fathollahi, from Ilam, and Emraei, from Kuhdasht in Lorestan…
Read moreAt least three prisoners previously sentenced to death for drug-related offences were today transferred to solitary confinement for execution in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that two of the prisoners are Eghbal Lahouri and Mohsen Emraei. Lahouri, from Ilam in Ilam Province, and Emraei, from Kuhdasht in Lorestan Province, were arrested about five years ago in…
Read moreKurdish prisoner of conscience Ayoub Karimi is facing imminent execution in Ghezal Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, after his family’s final visit. On 25 November, several family members of the Sunni Kurdish prisoner visited him after being urgently summoned to the prison for what could be their last meeting. Ghassem Abasteh, one of Karimi’s co-defendants, was executed in the same prison on 5 November. An informed…
Read moreDeath row Kurdish prisoner of conscience Ayoub Karimi was moved to solitary confinement in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, on 21 November, heightening fears of his imminent execution. Ghassem Abasteh, one of Karimi’s co-defendants, was executed in the same prison on 5 November. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) issued a report on 17 November, highlighting that Ayoub Karimi and five other political prisoners…
Read moreDeath row prisoners Mohammad Andishkouh and Moslem Jamshidi were executed today on drug-related charges in Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. The two prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 21 November. Andishkouh, 29, from Kuhdasht, Lorestan Province, was arrested about eight years ago and sentenced to death. Jamshidi was a 55-year-old father of one from Harsin, Kermanshah Province.
Read moreTwo death row prisoners Mohammad Morad Andishkou and Moslem Jamshidi, convicted of drug-related offences, were transferred to solitary confinement for execution in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, on 21 November. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that after their transfer to solitary confinement, the prison authorities informed the prisoners’ families that they would be executed several hours later. Andishkou, from Kuhdasht in…
Read morePrisoner Siamand Ostovar was executed today for drug-related offences in Ardabil Central Prison in Ardabil Province. The prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 16 October. Ostovar, a 39-year-old father of two from the village of Danguz in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, was arrested and sentenced to death two years ago in Ardabil.
Read moreKurdish prisoners of conscience Anvar Khezri, Kamran Sheikheh, Khosrow Besharat, Davoud Abdollahi, Farhad Salimi and Ayoub Karimi, held at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, are facing an imminent threat of execution, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. One of the co-defendant of these prisoners, Ghassem Abasteh was executed on charges of “spreading corruption on earth” (efsad-e fel arz) took place on…
Read morePrisoner Shahbaz Latifi was executed on murder-related offences in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, on 15 November, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. On 14 November, Latifi was transferred to solitary confinement for execution. Latifi, originally from the village of Salatin in the Osmanvand region of Kermanshah, was convicted in 2017 for the “premeditated murder” of his spouse and a police officer. He…
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