Iranian authorities have executed three prisoners convicted of murder and drug-related offences in recent weeks in the central prisons of Sanandaj, Kermanshah (Dizel Abad), and Zanjan, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned.
On 24 September, Keyvan Mohammadi, aged 29, from the village of Gerd Miran-e Olya in Dehgolan, Kurdistan Province, and residing in Eslamshahr, Tehran Province, was executed in Zanjan Central Prison.
He was sentenced to death approximately two years earlier for drug-related offences.
Separately, on 2 October, the authorities in Kermanshah Central Prison executed Kamyar Barati, a prisoner from Sar Firuzabad rural district in Kermanshah Province.
Barati was arrested about six years ago and sentenced to death for “premeditated murder”.
In a further case, Taleb Hejratipour, from the village of Bardeh Rashan in Marivan in Kurdistan Province, was executed on 6 October in Sanandaj Central Prison.
He was arrested about 10 years ago on charges of “premeditated murder” and sentenced to death.
He was transferred twice to solitary confinement in recent years in preparation for his execution, but each time the sentence was temporarily halted after the victim’s family granted him a reprieve in exchange for blood money.
Under Islamic law, premeditated murder is a crime punishable by qisas (retribution in kind), which gives the victim’s family the right to retaliate.
