Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Young man executed on drug-related charges in Hamadan

Amir-Hossein Rostami Pataghi, a 23-year-old prisoner from the village of Patagh in Sarpol-e Zahab, Kermanshah Province, was executed in Hamadan Central Prison in the early hours of 21 November. Rostami was arrested about five years ago on drug trafficking charges and subsequently sentenced to death.

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