Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Shoresh Sattarzadeh, a prisoner from Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, has been executed in Sanandaj Central Prison after spending about 18 years on death row. Sattarzadeh had been sentenced to qisas,

Iranian authorities executed 57-year-old Karim Karami in Kermanshah Central Prison at dawn on 15 June. Karami, from Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, was sentenced to qisas, or retribution in kind,

Iranian authorities executed 23-year-old Mohammad Ahmadi in Sanandaj Central Prison at dawn on 16 June. Ahmadi, from Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, had previously been sentenced to qisas, or

Darioush Ghobadi, a prisoner from Harsin who had been sentenced to death on charges of “premeditated murder”, was executed in Kermanshah Central Prison (Dizel Abad Prison) in the early hours of 9

Abbas Zarei, a 40-year-old prisoner from Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, was executed at dawn on 9 June in Kermanshah Central Prison (Dizel Abad Prison). Zarei was sentenced to qisas, or

A juvenile offender named Armin has been transferred to solitary confinement in Orumiyeh Central Prison for the implementation of his death sentence. Armin had been detained several years ago on

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

Two Kurdish political prisoners, Ashkan Maleki and Mehrdad Mohammadinia, have been secretly executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj after being sentenced to death in a rapid and unfair

Esmaeil Ramazanpour, a 38-year-old resident of Yazd, has been sentenced to death by the city's Islamic Revolutionary Court following his arrest during the December 2025-January 2026 protests, a trial

Abdolghader Rasouli, a man from Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, has been executed at the city's prison after being convicted on drug-related charges. Rasouli was transferred to the solitary