Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Four prisoners, including two women, were executed in Ilam Central Prison on 3 December, after being convicted of “premeditated murder” in separate cases. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the individuals - Farideh Jafarzadeh, Aliyeh Kavarizadeh, Hassan Hassan-Beygi and Abdol-Vahab Babakhaniyan - were transferred to solitary confinement on 2 December in preparation for their executions. All four were sentenced to death after being...

Shir-Ali Tarkesh-Band, a prisoner from Sahneh, Kermanshah Province, was executed for drug-related offences on 27 November in Lakan Prison in Rasht, Gilan Province. Tarkesh-Band, 55, was arrested about four years ago on drug trafficking charges and later sentenced to death.

Iran has executed four men for drug and murder-related offences in prisons in Kermanshah, Saqqez, Hamadan and Karaj in the past week. On 20 November, Mostafa Souri, a prisoner from Kangavar, Kermanshah Province, who had been arrested several years ago on drug-related charges, was executed in Dizel Abad prison in Kermanshah Province. In the early hours of 21 November, Meysam Nouri, a prisoner from Qorveh, Kurdistan...

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.

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...

Iranian authorities have executed Omid Sheikh-Kanlou Milan, a prisoner from Salmas in West Azerbaijan Province, who had been convicted of rape, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Sheikh-Kanlou Milan, who was arrested about three years ago, was transferred to solitary confinement in Orumiyeh Central Prison on 12 November in preparation for his execution, which took place in the early hours of 14 November.

Mohsen Moradi, Jafar Rastegar and Hamzeh Tarkashvand, three men sentenced to death on drug-related charges, were executed today in Ghezal Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The three prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement on 11 November in preparation for their executions. Moradi from Nurabad, Lorestan Province, Rastegar from Harsin, Kermanshah Province, and Tarkashvand from Kangavar, Kermanshah Province,...

Iranian authorities executed Mojtaba Ghassemi, a 40-year-old man from Harsin in Kermanshah Province, on charges of “premeditated murder” on 6 November in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. He was executed along with at least eight other prisoners, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Ghasemi, a father of one from the village of Kalkowshavand-e Vosta in Harsin, was arrested about two years ago...

Faramarz Entesari and Jalil Eghbalzadeh, two prisoners sentenced to death for drug-related offences, were executed on 6 November in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The two men were transferred to solitary confinement on 4 November in preparation for their executions. Eghbalzadeh, from the village of Mal Amiri Sofla in Sahneh, Kermanshah Province, was arrested about four...