Kurdistan Human Rights Network

At least nine prisoners convicted on drug, murder and armed robbery charges were executed today in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, and Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that prisoner Farhad Aghaei, 32, from the village of Badrabad in Ravansar, Kermanshah Province, who was sentenced to death for "premeditated murder", was executed this morning...

A group of at least 10 death row prisoners were today transferred to solitary confinement inside Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj in preparation for their executions. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that this group includes prisoners Hossein Havasi, Rasoul Teymouri and Bahman Fathollahi, as well as seven other prisoners whose identities remain unknown. Havasi and Teymouri, both from Kuhdasht in Lorestan Province, were previously...