Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Death row prisoners Mohammad Andishkouh and Moslem Jamshidi were executed today on drug-related charges in Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. The two prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 21 November. Andishkouh, 29, from Kuhdasht, Lorestan Province, was arrested about eight years ago and sentenced to death. Jamshidi was a 55-year-old father of one from Harsin, Kermanshah Province.

Two death row prisoners Mohammad Morad Andishkou and Moslem Jamshidi, convicted of drug-related offences, were transferred to solitary confinement for execution in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, on 21 November. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that after their transfer to solitary confinement, the prison authorities informed the prisoners' families that they would be executed several hours later. Andishkou, from Kuhdasht in...