Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Four prisoners, including two women, were executed in Ilam Central Prison on 3 December, after being convicted of “premeditated murder” in separate cases. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the individuals – Farideh Jafarzadeh, Aliyeh Kavarizadeh, Hassan Hassan-Beygi and Abdol-Vahab Babakhaniyan – were transferred to solitary confinement on 2 December in preparation for their executions. All four were sentenced to death after being…

Shir-Ali Tarkesh-Band, a prisoner from Sahneh, Kermanshah Province, was executed for drug-related offences on 27 November in Lakan Prison in Rasht, Gilan Province. Tarkesh-Band, 55, was arrested about four years ago on drug trafficking charges and later sentenced to death.

Three prisoners in Orumiyeh Central Prison, Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Shahivand and Mehdi Sharafian, have written an open letter to human rights organisations warning of the imminent execution of their amputation sentences.  These sentences, handed down in 2019 for theft, involve the amputation of four fingers on their right hands. The prisoners, who have been detained since September 2017, expressed their fears following the recent enforcement of…

Political prisoner Azad Abbasi has been subjected to severe assaults while serving his one-year prison sentence in Qorveh Prison, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that on 19 November, the ward head and several inmates convicted of common crimes beat Abbasi, and despite requests for an investigation and review of CCTV footage following a meeting with prison officials, Abbasi was assaulted…

Iran has executed four men for drug and murder-related offences in prisons in Kermanshah, Saqqez, Hamadan and Karaj in the past week. On 20 November, Mostafa Souri, a prisoner from Kangavar, Kermanshah Province, who had been arrested several years ago on drug-related charges, was executed in Dizel Abad prison in Kermanshah Province. In the early hours of 21 November, Meysam Nouri, a prisoner from Qorveh, Kurdistan…

Amir-Hossein Rostami Pataghi, a 23-year-old prisoner from the village of Patagh in Sarpol-e Zahab, Kermanshah Province, was executed in Hamadan Central Prison in the early hours of 21 November. Rostami was arrested about five years ago on drug trafficking charges and subsequently sentenced to death.

Iranian authorities executed Amanj Azizi and Rahim Faghiri, two men convicted in separate drug-related cases, in Orumiyeh and Birjand last week, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Azizi, from the village of Aghlan in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, was transferred to solitary confinement in Orumiyeh Central Prison, West Azerbaijan Province, in preparation for his execution on 14 November, which took place at dawn…

Kurdish activist Verisheh Moradi, who was sentenced to death by the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran on 8 November, has been denied medical treatment on the orders of the security services and officials of Evin Prison, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Moradi, who was convicted on charges of “armed insurrection” (baghi) by Branch 15 of the court, has developed gastrointestinal problems following…

Iranian authorities have executed Omid Sheikh-Kanlou Milan, a prisoner from Salmas in West Azerbaijan Province, who had been convicted of rape, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Sheikh-Kanlou Milan, who was arrested about three years ago, was transferred to solitary confinement in Orumiyeh Central Prison on 12 November in preparation for his execution, which took place in the early hours of 14 November.