Azad Changeh, a prisoner sentenced to death on drug-related charges, has been executed in Naqadeh Prison, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned.

Changeh was arrested in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, in June 2022 and later handed a death sentence by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, for offences linked to drug trafficking.

He was executed at dawn on 3 December in Naqadeh Prison.

Changeh, 48, from Sardasht in West Azerbaijan Province, was the father of two children.