Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Iranian authorities have executed three prisoners, Mowloud Khaledian, Nima Moradi and Nasrollah Mennati, on charges of premeditated murder in Ilam Central Prison in Ilam Province and Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. Khaledian, a father of one from the village of Qamlu in Qorveh, Kurdistan Province, was executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj on the morning of 2 October. He was arrested four...

Iranian authorities have executed Fazlollah Pour-Nasiri, a prisoner from Kuhdasht, Lorestan Province, who had been sentenced to death on drug-related charges, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Pour-Nasiri, who was arrested about three and a half years ago, was transferred to solitary confinement in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, on 30 September and executed this morning. Another prisoner, Hamzeh Shahbazi, was also...

Iranian authorities executed Kam-Bakhsh Mahmoudi, a man convicted of "premeditated murder", on 25 September in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province. Mahmoudi, 34, from the city of Bisotun in Kermanshah Province, was arrested two years ago and sentenced to death. According to statistics compiled by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), at least seven Kurdish prisoners have been executed in Iranian prisons over the past...

Iranian authorities executed Sajjad Bandegi, a man convicted of drug-related offences, on 11 September in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. The prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement for the execution on 10 September. Bandegi, a 35-year-old from Harsin, Kermanshah Province, was arrested in October 2015, along with another man, Foroud Geravand, on charges of drug trafficking. Geravand, from Kuhdasht in Lorestan Province, was executed in...

The Iranian authorities executed Feyzollah Hosseinpour and Soleyman Ghahremani, two prisoners convicted of "premeditated murder", on 9 September in Miandoab Prison in West Azerbaijan Province. The two men were transferred to solitary confinement on 8 September in preparation for their executions. They were sentenced to death after being found guilty of "premeditated murder", a crime punishable by qisas, which gives the victim's family the right to...

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and 67 other human rights organisations have issued a joint statement in support of the "No Death Penalty Tuesdays" hunger strikes in Iranian prisons, now in their 31st consecutive week. The strikes, initiated by political prisoners in response to the alarming increase in executions across Iran, aim to draw attention to the country's widespread use of the death penalty,...

Iranian authorities executed Mohammad Khaled Jahangiri, a prisoner from Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, on drug-related charges in Tabriz Central Prison, East Azerbaijan Province, on 22 August. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Jahangiri was transferred to solitary confinement for execution the day before. Jahangiri was a father of two from the village of Balu in Orumiyeh. According to statistics compiled by the KHRN, at...

Iranian authorities executed Mohammad Daghestani, a prisoner from Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, on drug-related charges in Miandoab Prison early on 21 August. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Daghestani was transferred to solitary confinement on 20 August in preparation for execution. Daghestani, a 49-year-old father of two from the village of Haki in Orumiyeh, was arrested several years ago on drug trafficking charges.

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...