The death sentence of a prisoner Kamil Ghaderi Aghdam was carried out in Naqadeh prison. He was transferred to solitary confinement yesterday to serve his sentence, a reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).
The prisoner from the village of Dilzeh in Piranshahr was arrested about two years ago on charges of premeditated murder and sentenced to retaliation (execution).
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...
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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.
Khosrow Besharat, a Kurdish prisoner of conscience on death row in Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, who was transferred to solitary confinement for execution hours after the execution of his co-defendant Anvar Khezri on 1 May, is at imminent risk of execution. Besharat was one of seven Kurdish prisoners of conscience who had been sentenced to death in a joint case on charges...
Prisoner Faramarz Moradi was executed on 30 April for drug-related offences in Ardabil Central Prison in Ardabil Province. Moradi, a 31-year-old man from of the village of Harkian in Salmas, West Azerbaijan Province, was sentenced to death about four years ago on charges related to drugs. On 11 February, Nojoumi Moradi, the brother of Faramarz Moradi, was also executed on charges of "premeditated murder" in Orumiyeh...
Kurdish prisoner of conscience Anvar Khezri was executed this morning in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, after 14 years in prison, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Khezri was one of seven Kurdish prisoners of conscience who had been sentenced to death in a joint case on charges of "spreading corruption on earth" (efsad-e fel arz). Four of Khezri's co-defendants, Ghassem Abasteh,...
Farzad Khademi, a prisoner convicted of "premeditated murder", was executed today in Saqqez Prison, in Kurdistan Province. He was transferred to solitary confinement on 23 April in preparation for his execution. Khademi, from of Saqqez, was arrested in July 2020 and sentenced to death under the Islamic law of qisas, or retribution-in-kind, which gives the victim’s family the right to retaliate.