Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Seven prisoners were executed in the central prisons of Orumiyeh and Salmas in West Azerbaijan Province in the early hours of 18 May, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The prisoners, Kaveh Bashengheh, Parvin Mousavi, Asghar Hajizadeh, Ramin Lavandpour, Parviz Ghassemi, Mansour Nasseri, and Yousef Saeidi, had all been sentenced to death on drug-related charges. On 16 May, Hajizadeh and Bashengeh were transferred to...

Parvin Mousavi, a woman prisoner sentenced to death on drug-related charges, was transferred to solitary confinement in Orumiyeh Central Prison for execution today. Prison officials have informed the prisoner that her death sentence will be carried out at midnight tonight. Mousavi, a 53-year-old Azerbaijani Turkic civilian from Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, was arrested about three years ago and sentenced to death on drug charges.