Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran executed prisoners Rashid Lavandpour and Khalegh Khezrzadeh in Karaj and Bandar Abbas central prisons today. Lavandpour, who comes from the village of Khargoush in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, was sentenced to the death penalty several years ago on drug-related charges. The prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement at Karaj Central Prison yesterday and was executed this morning. Khezrzadeh, 32, who comes from Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan province,...

Iran has executed a prisoner named Bayazid (Yousef) Rashidi, who had previously been sentenced to death over drug charges, in Orumiyeh Central Prison in the morning of 10 April, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The prisoner, who comes from Kalhor village of Orumiyeh, was transferred from Ward 15 to solitary confinement on 8 April for execution. Earlier, on 4 April, Iran executed three...

Three prisoners sentenced to death penalty (execution as retribution), who had been transferred to solitary confinement from different wards of Orumiyeh Central Prison yesterday, were transferred back to the prison with the consent of the victim's family. A source has identified the three prisoners as Hassan Shoghi from Youth Ward, Abbas Rezai from Workers' Ward, and Mohsen Mustafa Zadeh from Ward 2-1. The three...

Arasteh Ranjbar and Nazdar Vathnkhah, two Kurdish women sentenced to execution on the charge of murder, were hanged on On the morning of July 23, 2019 at Orumiyeh Central Prison. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that the two detainees were transferred to solitary confinement cells a day before their execution and executed on Tuesday morning with the presence of the victim's “blood...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): On Monday morning, March 12, a prisoner charged with murder was executed at Tabriz Central Prison. A reliable source told KHRN that Islam Farsi, 42-year-old from the city of Eilkhchi of Tabriz, was arrested about 15 years and eight months ago on charges of murdering his wife. He was hanged at the Tabriz Central Prison in the presence of the...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Three prisoners- Hossein Rahimi, Naji Omarzadeh and Khalil Salehi- were executed on murder charges at Orumiyeh Central Prison on Monday March 11, 2019. A reliable source told KHRN that "these prisoners were transferred from Ward 3-4 to solitary confinement cells a day before the execution and they were executed on Monday at the Orumiyeh Central Prison in the presence of...

A prisoner was executed on murder charge at Orumiyeh Central Prison this morning on Monday, December 31. He was transferred to a solitary confinement cell yesterday along with two other death row prisoners. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Zaman Rezaei, 60 years old from Miandoab who was previously sentenced to death on charges of murder, was executed today at the Orumiyeh...

A prisoner was executed on murder charge at Tabriz Central Prison this morning on Tuesday, Nov 27. He was previously convicted of Qisas (Retaliation in kind). A reliable source has identified the prisoner as Hassan Fakhri from Sarab. According to this source, the prisoner who had been transferred to the quarantine prison three times over the past three years was detained in ward 9 of the...

The Supreme Court (Branch 47) approved the death sentence for Hedayat Abdollahpour, a prisoner detained at Orumiyeh Central Prison. The court also equally approved the long prison sentence for six other people who were arrested along with Abdollahpour in a conflict at Qaresoghl village in June 2016 and later released on bail. In a conversation with the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), Hossein Ahmad Niazi...