Kurdistan Human Rights Network

At the same time as the execution of Shahram Mohammad-Beygi in Ilam Central Prison on 28 November, two other prisoners, Ali-Agha Mohammadi and Nasser Maghsoudi, were also executed in the same facility, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Both had previously been sentenced to death on charges of "premeditated murder". On 28 November, the KHRN reported that Mohammad-Beygi had been executed in Ilam Cental...

Kurdish prisoner of conscience Ayoub Karimi was executed today after 14 years in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. On 21 November, Karimi was transferred to solitary confinement for execution. Karimi, along with six others – Anvar Khezri, Kamran Sheikheh, Khosrow Besharat, Davoud Abdollahi, Farhad Salimi and Ghassem Abasteh – had been sentenced to death on charges of "spreading corruption on earth" (efsad-e fel arz). Abasteh,...

The Special Clerical Court in Hamadan, in north-west Iran, has sentenced Sunni Kurdish cleric Hossein Ali-Moradi to 16 months in prison. Ali-Moradi, who is the director of the Ebrahim Khalilollah School of Religious Studies in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, was charged with "acting against national security" and "propaganda against the state". In April, in a separate case, the court sentenced Ali-Moradi to two years of suspended imprisonment...

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...

Habib Rezaei, a 52-year-old kolbar who was seriously injured by gunfire from Iranian border guards in the border area of Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, is currently in a critical condition in the intensive care unit of Taleghani Hospital in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province. Rezaei, from Javanrud, Kermanshah Province, was critically injured on 26 November after a bullet fired by border guards at close range and without warning...