Iranian authorities have executed Mostafa Vosoughi, a prisoner sentenced to death under qisas (retribution in kind) on a charge of “premeditated murder”, in Khorramabad Central Prison.

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Vosoughi was executed in the early hours of 26 August after he had spent around three years in prison.

Vosoughi, 27, was from the village of Rivasan in the Itivand-e Jonubi rural district, Nurabad, Lorestan Province.

He was arrested around three years ago on a charge of “premeditated murder” and subsequently sentenced to qisas.