Prisoners Farhang Sheikheh and Morteza Sadeghzadeh have been executed in recent days in prisons in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, and Damghan, Semnan Province.
Sheikheh, a 55-year-old citizen from Sanandaj, was executed at dawn on 25 May in Sanandaj Central Prison.
He had been arrested about five years earlier on the charge of “premeditated murder” and sentenced to death under qisas, or retribution in kind.
Under Iran’s Islamic law, premeditated murder is punishable by qisas, or 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, known as diya, or blood money.
Sadeghzadeh, a 28-year-old citizen from Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, was executed at dawn on 1 June in Damghan Prison.
He had been arrested about three years earlier on drug-related charges and was later sentenced to death.
