The Iranian government has executed a prisoner on drug-related charges at Kashmar Prison on Aug 13, 2017.
KHRN has identified the detainee as Mojtaba Heydari Abbasali from Yazd.
The prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement in Kashmar prison a day before his execution.
Seyvan Yaghoubi, a prisoner sentenced to death on charges of “premeditated murder”, was executed in Sanandaj Central Prison on 16 January. Yaghoubi, a 36-year-old...
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Seyvan Yaghoubi, a prisoner sentenced to death on charges of “premeditated murder”, was executed in Sanandaj Central Prison on 16 January. Yaghoubi, a 36-year-old man from the village of Bisaran in Sarvabad, Kurdistan Province, was sentenced to death about three years ago. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement on 15 January in preparation for the execution,...
A group of civil, human rights, political and media activists from Kurdistan have issued a statement calling for the immediate annulment of the death sentence imposed on Kurdish political prisoner Pakhshan Azizi and a review of her case. The signatories also demanded review of the cases of other death row prisoners in the country. The statement, entitled “Respect the Right to Life”, highlighted the widespread concern...
Prisoner Farman Afristam, a prisoner sentenced to death for “premeditated murder”, was executed in the early hours of 7 January in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province. Afristam, a father of two from of the village of Milkeh-ye Shir Khan in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, was arrested four years ago on murder charges. Earlier, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported on the execution of three...
Iran executed Ashkan Kazemi, Mohammad Shahidi, and Mozaffar Shahsavari, three prisoners sentenced to death on charges of "premeditated murder", in the early hours of 7 January at Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province. Kazemi, from the village of Kazem Khani-ye Olya in Gilan-e Gharb, Kermanshah Province, Shahidi and Shahsavari, both from Kermanshah, were arrested about four years ago on separate murder charges.
Ali Atin and Reza Seyyedi, two prisoners from Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, convicted of “rape”, were executed in Mahabad Prison in the early hours of 6 January, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The two prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement in recent days in preparation for their executions. Atin, 28, and Seyyedi, 48, were arrested in September 2021 on charges of participating in...