Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Death row prisoners Jafar Mohammadpour and Ghobad Farhadpour were executed on 9 June in Orumiyeh Central Prison, in north-west Iran, on drug-related charges. On 8 June, the two prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement for execution, along with a woman prisoner, Parvin Mousavi. Mohammadpour and Farhadpour were executed on the morning of 9 June, while Mousavi's execution was temporarily halted for unknown reasons. Mohammadpour, 41, a father...

Iran executed prisoners Ezzat-Ali Sabzi and Mohammad Kazemi for drug-related offences at Karaj Central Penitentiary on 30 May. Sabzi, 44, was a father of one from Harsin, Kermanshah Province. He was arrested about three years ago on drug-related charges and sentenced to death. The authorities at Karaj Central Penitentiary presented Sabzi as one of the leaders of the recent anti-government protests and urged his execution. In 2012,...

Iran executed Monireh Nourikia, a woman prisoner sentenced to death for "premeditated murder", in Mashhad Central Prison on 28 May. Nourikia, 35, was arrested in 2020 and sentenced to death for "premeditated murder" under the Islamic law of qisas, or retribution-in-kind, which gives the victim’s family the right to retaliate. Several men were also reportedly executed at the same time in Mashhad Central Prison, but no...

Prisoners Saeid Najafi and Borzou Cheghazardi, sentenced to death for "premeditated murder", were executed in Kermanshah Central Prison (also known as Dizel Abad Prison) on 17 May. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the two prisoners were executed without the knowledge of their families. Only after their executions did the prison authorities contact their families to inform them. Najafi, 28, from Sahneh, Kermanshah Province,...

Iran executed death row prisoners Saeid Geravand, Samad Geravand and Shahab Mansouri-Nasab in Qezel Hesar Prison in Karaj on 20 May. The three prisoners, who were sentenced to death about four years ago in a joint drug case, were transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 19 May. The night before the executions, the families of the three prisoners staged a sit-in protest outside the prison,...

At least three prisoners sentenced to death on drug-related charges were transferred to solitary confinement in Qezel Hesar Prison in Karaj a few hours ago for execution, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The families of the prisoners Saeid Geravand, Samad Geravand and Shahab Mansouri-Nasab gathered outside the prison, calling for people's support to stop the executions. The three prisoners were arrested about four...

Iran yesterday executed Firouz Yarinezhad and Ali Khorramshah in Khorramabad Central Prison for "drug-related" and "murder-related" offences respectively. Yarinezhad, 37, a father of two from Kuhdasht in Lorestan province, was arrested in 2021 on drug-related charges and sentenced to death. Khorramshah, 39, also from Kuhdasht, was arrested about four years ago. He was sentenced to death for "premeditated murder" under the Islamic law of qisas, or retribution-in-kind,...

Death row prisoners Mostafa Salehi and Jamshid Karimi were executed today for "premeditated murder" in Sanandaj Central Prison in north-west Iran. The two prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 13 May. Karimi's death sentence was initially suspended after the victim's family agreed to receive 40 billion Iranian rials – nearly 80,000 USD – in "blood money". After being returned to the general ward of...

Iran executed prisoners Kioumars Menbari and Saeid Arjmandi at Sanandaj Central Prison on 14 May on charges of "premeditated murder". The two prisoners were moved to solitary confinement on 11 May for execution. Manbari was a father of three from Kamyaran, Kurdistan province, and Arjmandi was from Khorramabad and a resident of Sanandaj, Kurdistan province.