Six prisoners have been executed by hanging for murder charges today at Orumiyeh prison in Iran, local human rights’ sources said.
The sources said that the six executed prisoners were : Aref ShahinDiji, Hosain EzatTalab, Rahman Ranjbar, AliReza Akbari, Arsalan Badyaneh and Abdulwahab Hatami.
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Four prisoners, including two women, were executed in Ilam Central Prison on 3 December, after being convicted of “premeditated murder” in separate cases. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the individuals - Farideh Jafarzadeh, Aliyeh Kavarizadeh, Hassan Hassan-Beygi and Abdol-Vahab Babakhaniyan - were transferred to solitary confinement on 2 December in preparation for their executions. All four were sentenced to death after being...
Shir-Ali Tarkesh-Band, a prisoner from Sahneh, Kermanshah Province, was executed for drug-related offences on 27 November in Lakan Prison in Rasht, Gilan Province. Tarkesh-Band, 55, was arrested about four years ago on drug trafficking charges and later sentenced to death.
Iran has executed four men for drug and murder-related offences in prisons in Kermanshah, Saqqez, Hamadan and Karaj in the past week. On 20 November, Mostafa Souri, a prisoner from Kangavar, Kermanshah Province, who had been arrested several years ago on drug-related charges, was executed in Dizel Abad prison in Kermanshah Province. In the early hours of 21 November, Meysam Nouri, a prisoner from Qorveh, Kurdistan...
Amir-Hossein Rostami Pataghi, a 23-year-old prisoner from the village of Patagh in Sarpol-e Zahab, Kermanshah Province, was executed in Hamadan Central Prison in the early hours of 21 November. Rostami was arrested about five years ago on drug trafficking charges and subsequently sentenced to death.
Iranian authorities executed Amanj Azizi and Rahim Faghiri, two men convicted in separate drug-related cases, in Orumiyeh and Birjand last week, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Azizi, from the village of Aghlan in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, was transferred to solitary confinement in Orumiyeh Central Prison, West Azerbaijan Province, in preparation for his execution on 14 November, which took place at dawn...