Iranian authorities have executed three prisoners on drug-related charges at Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the prisoners – identified as Reza Molaei, Mohammad Reza Badavi and Mehdi Jafarzadeh – were transferred to solitary confinement on 8 November in preparation for their executions, which were carried out at dawn the following day.
Molaei, a 48-year-old Kurdish man from the village of Qulonji in Orumiyeh, and Jafarzadeh, a 47-year-old Turkish man from Orumiyeh, were arrested in 2019 and sentenced to death in a joint trial for drug trafficking offences.
Badavi, a 47-year-old Kurdish man and father of four from the village of Kavsi in Orumiyeh, was arrested about six years ago on the same charges and later sentenced to death.
These executions bring the total number of prisoners executed in Orumiyeh Central Prison in recent days to at least five.
On 7 November, two other prisoners, identified as Hawre Jahan-Ara and Shamseddin (Shahab) Abbasi Kay, were also executed in the same prison for drug-related offences.
Jahan-Ara, a father of one from Sardasht, was arrested around two years ago and sentenced to death. Abbasi Kay, a 51-year-old man from the village of Kay in Orumiyeh, was arrested in autumn 2023 and also sentenced to death by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh.
