Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Death row prisoners Bagher Mohammadi Geravand and Nazir Mohammadi were executed today for drug-related offences in Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. The two prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 14 November. Mohammadi Garavand, a 40-year-old civilian from Kuhdasht, Lorestan Province, was arrested in 2014 on drug-related charges and sentenced to death. Nazir Mohammadi, an Afghan national, had also been convicted on similar...

Two death row prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement for execution today in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that one of the prisoners is Bagher Mohammadi, a 40-year-old civilian from Kuhdasht, Lorestan Province, and the other is an Afghan civilian whose identity remains unknown. Mohammadi was arrested nearly a decade ago on drug-related charges and sentenced...

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...

Prisoner Akbar Farrokhi was executed on murder-related offences in Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province on 7 November. 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. Farrokhi and another prisoner, Amin Khorshidi, were transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 6 November. Khorshidi's execution was halted after the great efforts by some...

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...

Prisoners Amin Khorshidi and Akbar Farrokhi, previously sentenced to death for "premeditated murder", were transferred to solitary confinement for execution in Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province on 6 November. Their execution was scheduled for the morning of 7 November unless the families of the victims agree to a pardon, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Khorshidi, a Kurdish civilian from the village...

Qassem Abasteh, a 44-year-old Kurdish political prisoner, was executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj on 5 November after 14 years in prison. Abasteh and six other Kurdish civilians had previously received death sentences in a joint case on charges of "spreading corruption on earth" (efsad-e fel arz) after an unfair trial. The political prisoner was moved to solitary confinement for execution on 29 October. After learning...

Prisoner Khalil Mohammadi was executed on 30 October for drug-related offences in Parsiloun prison in Khorramabad, Lorestan Province. Mohammadi and another prisoner were transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 29 October. There is no information about the identity or fate of the other prisoner. Mohammadi, a father of two from Harsin, Kermanshah Province, was arrested and sentenced to death several years ago. According to statistics compiled by...

Prisoner Khosrow Naghiani was executed on drug-related offences in Karaj Central Penitentiary on 22 October. The prisoner was moved to solitary confinement for execution on 21 October. Naghiani, 30, was from the village of Cham-e Astan in Kuhdasht, Lorestan Province, and was arrested and sentenced to death about five years ago.