The authorities at Ilam Central Prison executed prisoner Mohsen Mehri for “premeditated murder” on 16 January. The prisoner had been arrested and sentenced to death about five years ago for the “premeditated murder” of his brother over a financial dispute, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Mehri was sentenced to death under the Islamic law of qisas, or retribution-in-kind, which gives the victim’s family…
Read moreThe health of Mohammad Khodkam, a prisoner from Bukan in West Azerbaijan Province, has taken a critical turn as he enters the twenty-fifth day of his hunger strike, protesting against a harsh prison sentence and fine. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Khodkam, who began his hunger strike on 23 December 2023, has twice been transferred unconscious from the quarantine ward to…
Read moreThe Iranian authorities have executed three prisoners in two days on drug-related charges in prisons in Hamadan, Hamadan Province, and Karaj, Alborz Province. Habib Darvishi, a 43-year-old father of two from Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, who was arrested several years ago for drug trafficking, was executed in Hamadan Central Prison on the morning of 16 January. Today, authorities at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj executed Iman Shabani…
Read moreKurdish political prisoners Pezhman Fatehi, Mohsen Mazloum, Mohammad Faramarzi, and Vafa Azarbar, who have been sentenced to death, have had their request for a retrial rejected by the Supreme Court, according to their lawyer, Masoud Shamsnejad. In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on 16 January, Shamsnejad said: “The request for a retrial on behalf of my clients Vafa Azarbar, Mohammad Faramarzi, Mohsen…
Read moreSome nine Kurdish political and religious prisoners are currently facing imminent execution in prisons in Karaj, Alborz Province, and Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, as well as in an undisclosed detention centre. The identities of these individuals are Kamran Sheikheh, Khosrow Besharat, Farhad Salimi, Anvar Khezri, Pezhman Fatehi, Vafa Azarbar, Mohsen Mazloum, Mohammad Faramarzi, and Reza Rasaei. These prisoners were sentenced to death during unfair trials on charges…
Read moreAuthorities at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, transferred prisoners Iman Shabanian and Hossein Fathollahzadeh, convicted on charges drug-related offences, to solitary confinement for execution on 15 January. Shabanian, from Golestan Province and a resident of Tehran, and Fathollahzadeh, a resident of Tehran, were arrested about four years ago on drug-related charges and sentenced to death. Their co-defendant, Bahman Fathollahzadeh, was executed in Ghezel Hesar…
Read morePrisoner Akram Karimpour was executed today in Hamadan Central Prison for drug trafficking, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. He was transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 14 January. Karimpour, a 40-year-old father of two from Saqqez in Kurdistan Province, was arrested about three years ago on drug trafficking charges.
Read moreKurdish political prisoner Parham Parvari, who was arrested during the anti-government uprising of Women Life Freedom in Tehran, was transferred from Evin Prison in Tehran to Iranshahr Prison in Sistan and Baluchestan Province on 13 January. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the authorities transferred the 25-year-old man in secret and without informing his family. In May 2023, Branch 28 of the Islamic…
Read moreFormer Kurdish political prisoner Bapir Barzeh was arrested on 13 January after being summoned to Branch One of the Enforcement of Judgements Office of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office and sent to Naqadeh Prison to serve a four-year sentence. In May 2023, the Criminal Court Two of Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, presided over by Judge Reza Ghahremani Saatlou, sentenced Barzeh to a total of…
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