Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran executes two men for drug-related charges

Iranian authorities executed Amanj Azizi and Rahim Faghiri, two men convicted in separate drug-related cases, in Orumiyeh and Birjand last week, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Azizi, from the village of Aghlan in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, was transferred to solitary confinement in Orumiyeh Central Prison, West Azerbaijan Province, in preparation for his execution on 14 November, which took place at dawn...

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