Iranian authorities executed Mohammad Khaled Jahangiri, a prisoner from Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, on drug-related charges in Tabriz Central Prison, East Azerbaijan Province, on 22 August.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Jahangiri was transferred to solitary confinement for execution the day before.
Jahangiri was a father of two from the village of Balu in Orumiyeh.
According to statistics compiled by the KHRN, at least 12 Kurdish prisoners have been executed in the past four weeks in various prisons across the country, including those in Orumiyeh, Kermanshah, Ghezel Hesar (Karaj), Khorramabad, Sanandaj, Sabzevar and Miandoab.
These prisoners had been convicted on charges ranging from drug offences to premeditated murder and “spreading corruption on earth” (efsad-e fel arz).
