Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The authorities at Ilam Central Prison executed prisoner Mohsen Mehri for "premeditated murder" on 16 January. The prisoner had been arrested and sentenced to death about five years ago for the "premeditated murder" of his brother over a financial dispute, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Mehri was sentenced to death under the Islamic law of qisas, or retribution-in-kind, which gives the victim’s family...

The Iranian authorities have executed three prisoners in two days on drug-related charges in prisons in Hamadan, Hamadan Province, and Karaj, Alborz Province. Habib Darvishi, a 43-year-old father of two from Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, who was arrested several years ago for drug trafficking, was executed in Hamadan Central Prison on the morning of 16 January. Today, authorities at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj executed Iman Shabani...

Authorities at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, transferred prisoners Iman Shabanian and Hossein Fathollahzadeh, convicted on charges drug-related offences, to solitary confinement for execution on 15 January. Shabanian, from Golestan Province and a resident of Tehran, and Fathollahzadeh, a resident of Tehran, were arrested about four years ago on drug-related charges and sentenced to death. Their co-defendant, Bahman Fathollahzadeh, was executed in Ghezel Hesar...

Prisoner Akram Karimpour was executed today in Hamadan Central Prison for drug trafficking, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. He was transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 14 January. Karimpour, a 40-year-old father of two from Saqqez in Kurdistan Province, was arrested about three years ago on drug trafficking charges.

Prisoners Hadi Nazari, Hojjat Miri, Akbar Taj, Amir Hossein Maleki and Ahmad Latifi were executed in Karaj Central Prison in Alborz Province on 14 January for drug trafficking. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the five prisoners, along with six others, were transferred to solitary confinement for execution in recent days. The identities and fates of the other six prisoners remain unknown. The five...

Authorities at Kermanshah's Dizel Abad Prison executed prisoner Meysam Habibi for "premeditated murder" on 11 January. The 37-year-old Habibi, from Nowdeshah, Kermanshah Province, was arrested on murder-related charges about seven years ago. 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.

Authorities at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, transferred death row prisoner Ahmad Moradi to solitary confinement on 9 January in preparation for his execution. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Moradi's family has been notified by the prison authorities of his execution, which is scheduled for tomorrow morning. Moradi, a 33-year-old resident of Kuhdasht in Lorestan Province, was arrested on drug...

Kurdish political prisoners Pezhman Fatehi, Mohsen Mazloum, Mohammad Faramarzi and Vafa Azarbar are at imminent risk of execution after the Supreme Court approved their death sentences. These members of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan were sentenced to death about two months ago in an unfair trial in Branch 26 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran on charges of "enmity against God" (moharebeh) and...

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...