Ali-Reza Malekinia, a 29-year-old prisoner from Sonqor, Kermanshah Province, has been executed in Hamadan Central Prison after being sentenced to death on charges of “premeditated murder”.

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Malekinia was executed at dawn on 16 June alongside several other prisoners.

No information is yet available on the identities of the other prisoners who were executed.

Malekinia, from the village of Bavaleh in Sonqor, was arrested several years ago in Hamadan and sentenced by the Criminal Court of Hamadan to qisas, or retribution in kind, on charges of “premeditated murder”.