Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Four prisoners were hanged on drug-related charges at Orumiyeh Central Prison. The prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement a day before their execution. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has identified these four detainees as Hassan Bashooki, Asqar Ranjbar, Hedayat Shirzad and Alireza Zarei. Hedayat Shirzad, from Orumiyeh, arrested 7 years ago on charges of carrying 250 kilograms of morphine. ...

On Monday morning November 6th, four prisoners sentenced to death on drug-related charges were reportedly transferred from various wards to solitary confinement at Orumiyeh Central prison in preparation for execution. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has identified these four detainees as Hassan Bashooki, Asqar Ranjbar, Hedayat Shirzad and Ali Zarei. Hedayat Shirzad has been transferred from the psychotherapy ward 2 while all the other three prisoners...

Kurdistan Human Rights Netwrok (KHRN)- Sherko Moarefi, a native of the Kurdish border town of Baneh, was 33 at the time of his arrest by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps in a village near his hometown in October 2008. He was tried by the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Saqez, which sentenced him to death on charges of: – Membership in an outlawed Kurdish party, the Komalah...

Four prisoners sentenced to execution charged with murder were reportedly transferred to solitary confinement in Orumiyeh Central prison from various wards in preparation for execution on Sept 25, 2017. Kudistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has identified these four detainees as Ghader Mohammad Hassan from Bukan from the Psychotherapist's Ward, Naeb Abbaspour from Orumieh ward-3-4, Javad Kheiri, from ward 15 and Muslim Tamarkhani from Psychotherapist’s ward...

Two prisoners were hanged on drug-related charges at Choubidar Prison of Qazvin on Sept 20, 2017. The prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement in Qazvin prison a day before their execution. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has identified the detainees as Tayeb Haji Zadeh and Mojtaba Rahmati. “Tayeb Haji Zadeh was 53 years old from Nahavand and had served about 5 years in the prison. Mojtaba...

A prisoner was executed in public at the Modarres Blvd. of Ilam City on charges of murder. According to the Ilam News website, on the morning of September 17, 2017, a prisoner charged with murder was executed publicly at the Modarres Blvd. in the city of Ilam. The executed prisoner has been identified as (S-D). According to the news, he was sentenced to death in December...

Three prisoners were executed on Murder Charges in Tabriz central prison this morning. “This morning, on September 18, three prisoners sentenced to execution on murder charges. They were reportedly transferred from ward 9 to solitary confinement in Tabriz Central prison in preparation for execution a day before their executions,” an informed source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network. This source identified the executed detainees as the 61-year-old...

Two prisoners were executed at Orumiyeh's central prison due to drug related charges on Saturday morning Aug 5, 2017. They had been transferred from wards 14&15 of Orumiyeh central prison to solitary confinement cells a day before their execution. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) which has obtained the identities of the prisoners, they are called Saeid Poor Hormozi and Hossein Shahini. Hossein Shahini, from...

A Kurdish political prisoner was executed on the vague charges of Moharebeh (enmity against God) and murder in Iran’s Sanandaj Central Prison. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learnt that the prisoner, Morteza Rahmani, was executed on 3 August after he was transferred to a solitary confinement cell in Sanandaj Central Prison on 31 July. The judiciary and the security authorities of the province...