Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran executes seven prisoners for drug-related charges

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...

Read more