Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Prisoner executed for murder-related charges in Kermanshah

Prisoner Alireza Partovi was executed on murder-related offences in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, on 8 November, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. He was sentenced to death under the Islamic law of qisas, or retribution-in-kind, which gives the victim’s family the right to retaliate. KHRN has previously reported that prisoner Farhad Aghaei was also executed on the same day in Dizel...

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