Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): On Monday morning, March 12, a prisoner charged with murder was executed at Tabriz Central Prison.
A reliable source told KHRN that Islam Farsi, 42-year-old from the city of Eilkhchi of Tabriz, was arrested about 15 years and eight months ago on charges of murdering his wife. He was hanged at the Tabriz Central Prison in the presence of the victim’s family on Monday, March 12.
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Farzad Khademi, a prisoner convicted of "premeditated murder", was executed today in Saqqez Prison, in Kurdistan Province. He was transferred to solitary confinement on 23 April in preparation for his execution. Khademi, from of Saqqez, was arrested in July 2020 and sentenced to death under the Islamic law of qisas, or retribution-in-kind, which gives the victim’s family the right to retaliate.
Jamal Mardani, a 54-year-old prisoner from Miandoab, West Azerbaijan Province, was executed on 21 April for drug-related offences in Kerman Central Prison, Kerman Province. The prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement for the execution on 19 April. Mardani, a father of four from the village of Gug Jalu in Miandoab, was arrested about four years ago.
In a unified call, 82 Iranian and international human rights groups have urged the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to make any cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran against drug trafficking conditional on a total halt to drug-related executions, citing potential dire consequences if action is not taken. The joint statement emphasized: "The United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC)...
Prisoner Mansour Mansouri, previously sentenced to death for murder, was executed in Ilam Central Prison on 11 March. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) had reported the execution of another prisoner, Moein Salavarzizadeh, in Ilam Central Prison on the same day. A source who spoke to KHRN said: "Mansour Mansouri, 44 years old, unmarried and from the city of Sarableh in Ilam Province, was arrested about...
Moein Salavarzizadeh, a 58-year-old man from the village of Haft Cheshmeh in Abdanan, Ilam Province, was executed today in Ilam Central Prison after spending 32 years behind bars for "premeditated murder". The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Salavarzizadeh was arrested in 1991 for the "premeditated murder" of his brother and subsequently sentenced to death by the Criminal Court One of Ilam Province,...