Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iranian authorities today executed a prisoner, Mohammad Karamizadeh, in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, after he was convicted of murdering his wife during a prison visit in 2019, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. On 18 August, the prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for his execution. An informed source who spoke to Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) said: "Mohammad...

Iranian authorities executed Nasser Geravand, a prisoner from Kuhdasht, Lorestan Province, on drug-related charges on 10 August in Parsiloun Prison in Khorramabad, Lorestan Province. Geravand was arrested several years ago and subsequently sentenced to death for drug-related offences. In the past three weeks, at least six prisoners from Kuhdasht have been executed in various prisons across Iran, including Bandar Abbas Prison, Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj,...

Iranian authorities today executed four prisoners in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, on charges related to drug offenses and "premeditated murder". The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the executed individuals were Foroud Geravand, Mohammad Gholami, Esmaeil Sharafi, and Shahab Maleki. Geravand, 50, from Kuhdasht in Lorestan Province, was arrested in 2015 and charged with drug offenses and the "premeditated murder" of...

Reza Rasaei, a 35-year-old Kurdish Yarsani civilian who was arrested during the Women, Life, Freedom anti-government uprising, was executed at dawn today in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the political prisoner's family and lawyer were not informed in advance, nor was he granted a final meeting with his family. Rasaei was summoned to the guard...

Azim Emraei, a young prisoner from Kuhdasht, Lorestan Province, was executed on drug-related charges on 27 July in Parsiloun Prison in Khorramabad, Lorestan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Emraei, along with at least two other prisoners, was moved to solitary confinement on 26 July in preparation for the execution. The identities and current status of the other two prisoners remain unknown...

Authorities executed Khalil Jamali, a prisoner sentenced to death on charges of "premeditated murder", on 21 July in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Jamali, from Sarpol-e Zahab, Kermanshah Province, was arrested about two years ago on murder charges and subsequently sentenced to death. This is the second execution in Dizel Abad prison on the same day....

Danyal Kazeminezhad, a 30-year-old prisoner from Eslamabad-e Gharb in Kermanshah Province, was executed in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah in the early hours of 21 July. Kazeminezhad had been sentenced to death on charges of "premeditated murder" of a Basij member, Sajjad Amiri. The execution was carried out without prior notice and without allowing Kazeminezhad a final meeting with his family, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network...

Kamran Sheikheh, a Kurdish prisoner of conscience sentenced to death, was today transferred to solitary confinement in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, raising concerns about the imminent execution of his sentence. The transfer came a day after one of his co-defendants, Khosrow Besharat, was executed after spending two weeks in solitary confinement in the same facility. Over the past few months, six of Sheikheh's...

Kurdish prisoner of conscience Khosrow Besharat was executed this morning in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, after 14 years in prison, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Besharat was transferred to solitary confinement on 1 May at the same time as the execution of his cousin and co-defendant, Anvar Khezri, and was held in a solitary cell until his execution. Five of...