Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Three prisoners convicted of drug-related offences were executed today in Orumiyeh Central Prison, West Azerbaijan Province. The prisoners, identified as Abdollah Hassanzadeh, Hassan Choupani and Hassan Arabi, were transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 7 May. Arabi, from the village of Anbi in Orumiyeh, had been arrested about three years ago and sentenced to death for "drug trafficking". Similarly, Choupani, from the village of Shahrestan in...

Iranian authorities executed prisoner Hassan Moharrer on 7 May for drug-related offences in Orumiyeh Central Prison, West Azerbaijan Province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 6 May. Moharrer, from the village of Lerni in the Tirgavar region of Orumiyeh, had been sentenced to death for drug trafficking around five years ago. At the same time,...

Khosrow Besharat, a Kurdish prisoner of conscience sentenced to death, had his last meeting with his family on 5 May in Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj, Alborz province, heightening fears of his imminent execution. Besharat was transferred to solitary confinement on 1 May at the same times as the execution of his cousin and co-defendant Anvar Khezri. Five of Besharat’s co-defendants, Ghassem Abasteh, Ayoub Karimi, Davoud...

Khosrow Babavaladeyni, a 65-year-old prisoner sentenced to death for "premeditated murder", was executed on 1 May in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province. Babavaladeyni, a father of four from the village of Sarmaj Hosseinkhani in Harsin, Kermanshah Province, was arrested about 10 years ago and sentenced to death under the Islamic law of qisas, or retribution-in-kind, which gives the victim’s family the right to...

Prisoner Ali Ashraf-Khani, who had been sentenced to death for "premeditated murder", was executed on 1 May in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province. Ashraf-Khani, a 45-year-old man from Sarpol-e Zahab, Kermanshah Province, was arrested in 2017 and sentenced to death under the Islamic law of qisas, or retribution-in-kind, which gives the victim’s family the right to retaliate.