Prisoner Khalil Mohammadi was executed on 30 October for drug-related offences in Parsiloun prison in Khorramabad, Lorestan Province. Mohammadi and another prisoner were transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 29 October. There is no information about the identity or fate of the other prisoner. Mohammadi, a father of two from Harsin, Kermanshah Province, was arrested and sentenced to death several years ago. According to statistics compiled by…
Read morePrisoner Khosrow Naghiani was executed on drug-related offences in Karaj Central Penitentiary on 22 October. The prisoner was moved to solitary confinement for execution on 21 October. Naghiani, 30, was from the village of Cham-e Astan in Kuhdasht, Lorestan Province, and was arrested and sentenced to death about five years ago.
Read moreIran today executed prisoners Fathollah Rashno and Vahid Kakavand on drug-related charges in Khorramabad Central Prison in Lorestan Province. On 18 October, the two prisoners were moved to solitary confinement for execution, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Rashno and Kakavand, both from Kuhdasht in Lorestan Province, were arrested on separate drug-related charges and sentenced to death. Earlier on 17 October, two other prisoners, Yasser…
Read moreIran today executed prisoners Yasser Golzardian and Sajjad Moradi on drug-related charges in Khorramabad Central Prison in Lorestan Province. On 16 October, the two prisoners were moved to solitary confinement for execution, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Golzardian, originally from Kuhdasht in Lorestan Province, was arrested about six years ago and sentenced to death on drug-related charges. Moradi was also arrested several years ago…
Read morePrisoners 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…
Read morePrisoner 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.
Read moreIran 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…
Read moreDeath 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…
Read morePrisoner 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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