Four prisoners, including one woman, have been transferred to solitary confinement in Ilam Central Prison, ahead of their planned executions.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that on 27 October, three men – Mehrdad Tab, Salim Sadeghi and Shirzad (surname unknown) – along with an unidentified female prisoner, were taken to solitary cells to await execution.
All four had previously been sentenced to qisas (retribution in kind) on charges of “premeditated murder”.
Prison authorities have reportedly informed the prisoners’ families that the executions are scheduled for early morning of 28 October unless the victims’ families choose to grant consent and waive their right to retribution.
Under Iran’s Islamic law, premeditated murder is punishable by qisas (retribution in kind), which gives the victim’s family the right to demand the offender’s execution or to grant clemency in exchange for financial compensation (diya, or blood money).
