Two prisoners were hanged on murder and drug charges in the last two days at Tabriz prison in Iran, local human rights’ sources said.
The source said that Hassan Asadi from city of Orumiyeh, was hanged on drug charges on Sunday January 17, and Jafar Ghafrani from Tabriz was hanged on murder charges today.
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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...
Iranian authorities have executed Omid Sheikh-Kanlou Milan, a prisoner from Salmas in West Azerbaijan Province, who had been convicted of rape, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Sheikh-Kanlou Milan, who was arrested about three years ago, was transferred to solitary confinement in Orumiyeh Central Prison on 12 November in preparation for his execution, which took place in the early hours of 14 November.