Authorities in Kermanshah Central Prison have executed prisoner Ali Karimi, who had been sentenced to death on charges of “premeditated murder”.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Karimi, 42, was executed at dawn on 5 November after spending more than five years in Kermanshah Central Prison, also known as Dizel Abad Prison.
Karimi, a father of two children from Kermanshah, was arrested in 2020 over the fatal stabbing of a man during a group fight in the village of Banrivand, in Sar Firuzabad, Kermanshah Province, and sentenced to death for “premeditated murder”.
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).
