Iranian authorities have executed Kaveh Refousheh, a 35-year-old prisoner who had been sentenced to death under qisas (retribution in kind) for “premeditated murder”, in Sanandaj Central Prison.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Refousheh was transferred from a general ward to solitary confinement on 16 August and executed at dawn on 18 August.
On the evening of 17 August, a group of citizens and civil rights activists gathered outside the prison, calling for the execution to be halted and for the victim’s family to grant clemency. They chanted “No to executions”.
Refousheh, who was from Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, killed a person during an altercation in the city around three years ago and subsequently turned himself in to the police.
The Criminal Court of Sanandaj later sentenced him to death under qisas for “premeditated murder”.
