Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran executes prisoner for murder charges in Karaj

Iranian authorities executed Mojtaba Ghassemi, a 40-year-old man from Harsin in Kermanshah Province, on charges of “premeditated murder” on 6 November in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. He was executed along with at least eight other prisoners, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Ghasemi, a father of one from the village of Kalkowshavand-e Vosta in Harsin, was arrested about two years ago...

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