Iranian authorities transferred Mohammad Koushki and Babakhan Jafari, two prisoners sentenced to death on drug-related charges, to solitary confinement in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, on 21 October for execution.
The two men, Koushki, 25 years old from Kuhdasht in Lorestan Province, and Jafari, 65 years old from Nurabad in Lorestan Province, were arrested in separate cases about five years ago and sentenced to death.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the families of the prisoners were informed by prison officials that the executions would take place in the coming days.
In the past four weeks alone, at least 11 prisoners convicted of drug offences or “premeditated murder” were executed in prisons across the country, including Kermanshah, Ghezel Hesar, Hamadan, and Orumiyeh.
