Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran has executed three prisoners on drug trafficking charges in the last two days at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. Prisoners Mohammad Hossein Geravand and Kioumars Gholami were executed on 8 January and Mohammad Ali Mirzaei was executed today. Geravand and Gholami were transferred to solitary cells for execution on 7 January while Mirzaei was moved to solitary confinement on 8 January along with...

The execution order for Reza Rasaei, a Kurdish political prisoner arrested during the anti-government uprising of Women Life Freedom, was sent to the Enforcement of Judgements Office of the Criminal Court of Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, on 31 December, for implementation. On 7 October 2023, Branch Two of the Criminal Court in Kermanshah, presided over by Judge Mohammad Rasoul Haghnejati and consultant Amin Mohammadi, sentenced Rasaei,...

Kurdish prisoner of conscience Davoud Abdollahi was executed today after 14 years in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. He went on hunger strike after being transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 26 December and was executed on the seventh day of his hunger strike, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Abdollahi had been sentenced to death along with six others –...

Iranian authorities have scheduled the execution of at least two prisoners convicted on drug-related charges, with one identified as Karam Lorestani, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The individuals were transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 21 December at Parsiloun Prison in Khorramabad, Lorestan Province. On the same day, prison officials informed the families of the two prisoners that the death sentences would...

Prisoner Farzad Gol-Mohammadi, 32, was executed today in Sanandaj Central Prison on charges of "premeditated murder." Gol-Mohammadi was moved to solitary confinement for execution on 18 December. He had previously been transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 9 December, but for unknown reasons the execution was temporarily halted and he was returned to the ward two days later. Gol-Mohammadi, from the village of Palangan in Kamyaran,...

Prisoner Obaid Mahmoudi was executed for murder-related charges in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, on 13 December. The prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement for execution in recent days. Mahmoudi, a father of one child from the village of Quri Qaleh in Ravansar, Kermanshah Province, was arrested and sentenced to death in October 2021 on charges of "premeditated murder" of a woman.

Prisoners Amin Zakeri Kakavand, Khalil Haji-Abadi and Hamid Esmaeili, sentenced to death on drug-related charges, were executed in Karaj Central Penitentiary on 12 December. The three prisoners, along with two prisoners whose identities remain unknown, were transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 11 December. Zakeri Kakavand was from Harsin in Kermanshah Province, Haji-Abadi was from Kangavar in Kermanshah Province, and Esmaeili was from Kuhdasht in...

Prisoner Davoud Khademi was executed in Sanandaj Central Prison on 12 December, convicted of "premeditated murder". The prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 11 December. Khademi, who was a 30-year-old father of two children from Marivan, Kurdistan Province, was arrested about four years ago on charges of "premeditated murder" and subsequently sentenced to death.

Prisoners Mojtaba Amiri, Manouchehr Barzgar, Sirous Heidari, Khaled Rouhi and Kamal Elhami have been executed over the past two days in Karaj, Alborz Province, and Sanandaj and Saqqez, Kurdistan Province. Amiri and Barzgar were executed on 5 December on charges of "drug trafficking" after being transferred to solitary confinement for execution with two other prisoners in Karaj Central Prison the day before. The identities and fate...