Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran executes five men for drug-related charges in Karaj

Prisoners Hadi Nazari, Hojjat Miri, Akbar Taj, Amir Hossein Maleki and Ahmad Latifi were executed in Karaj Central Prison in Alborz Province on 14 January for drug trafficking. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the five prisoners, along with six others, were transferred to solitary confinement for execution in recent days. The identities and fates of the other six prisoners remain unknown. The five...

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