Prisoners Hadi Nazari, Hojjat Miri, Akbar Taj, Amir Hossein Maleki and Ahmad Latifi were executed in Karaj Central Prison in Alborz Province on 14 January for drug trafficking. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the five prisoners, along with six others, were transferred to solitary confinement for execution in recent days. The identities and fates of the other six prisoners remain unknown. The five…
Read moreAuthorities at Kermanshah’s Dizel Abad Prison executed prisoner Meysam Habibi for “premeditated murder” on 11 January. The 37-year-old Habibi, from Nowdeshah, Kermanshah Province, was arrested on murder-related charges about seven years ago. He was sentenced to death under the Islamic law of qisas, or retribution-in-kind, which gives the victim’s family the right to retaliate.
Read moreKurdish political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh, currently serving a seven and a half year sentence in the women’s section of Mashhad Central Prison, is being denied medical care and her communication with her family is being restricted, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Despite suffering from respiratory and heart problems, Parvaneh is being denied access to medical services due to opposition from the Intelligence…
Read moreSunni Kurdish prisoners of conscience Farhad Salimi, Anvar Khezri, Khosrow Besharat and Kamran Sheikheh went on hunger strike on 3 January in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, following the execution of their co-defendant Davoud Abdollahi and the threat of their own imminent execution. These prisoners, along with at least ten other prisoners of conscience, are being held in isolation and without basic facilities…
Read moreAuthorities at Qazvin Central Prison today executed Felit Abedi, a 55-year-old man from the village of Berasb in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, for drug trafficking. Abedi was arrested on drug-related charges in Qazvin about three years ago and subsequently sentenced to death.
Read moreAuthorities at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, transferred death row prisoner Ahmad Moradi to solitary confinement on 9 January in preparation for his execution. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Moradi’s family has been notified by the prison authorities of his execution, which is scheduled for tomorrow morning. Moradi, a 33-year-old resident of Kuhdasht in Lorestan Province, was arrested on drug…
Read moreThe hunger striking prisoner Mohammad Khodkam was transferred from the quarantine section of Bukan Prison in West Azerbaijan Province to the infirmary on 7 January due to a significant drop in his blood pressure and subsequent loss of consciousness, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The deterioration of Khodkam’s physical condition due to severe weight loss has been described as alarming. The prisoner began…
Read moreKurdish political prisoners Pezhman Fatehi, Mohsen Mazloum, Mohammad Faramarzi and Vafa Azarbar are at imminent risk of execution after the Supreme Court approved their death sentences. These members of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan were sentenced to death about two months ago in an unfair trial in Branch 26 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran on charges of “enmity against God” (moharebeh) and…
Read moreIran has executed three prisoners on drug trafficking charges in the last two days at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. Prisoners Mohammad Hossein Geravand and Kioumars Gholami were executed on 8 January and Mohammad Ali Mirzaei was executed today. Geravand and Gholami were transferred to solitary cells for execution on 7 January while Mirzaei was moved to solitary confinement on 8 January along with…
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