Yaghoub Dachi, an Arab prisoner from Dasht-e Abbas in Ilam Province, was executed on 12 November at Ilam Central Prison for “premeditated murder”.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Dachi was transferred to solitary confinement on 11 November in preparation for the execution of his death sentence and executed at dawn the following day.
Dachi, aged 28, was arrested about three years ago and sentenced to death on charges of “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).