Tag Archive: execution

International Liberty Association: Iran Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences of five men who were arrested by security forces during the December 2017 and January 2018 protests.The names of the five people whose death sentences have been upheld by the Supreme Court in Isfahan are Mehdi Salehi Ghale Shahrokhi, Mohammad Bastami,... Read More

Iran hanged three inmates during the early morning hours of Thursday, 26 September. The horrific executions was carried out in Urmia Prison, northwest Iran. All of the victims were sentenced to death on drug related charges. International Liberty Association had previously reported the executions of a woman, identified as Leila... Read More

Iran: Ten Prisoners Including a Woman Executed. Ten prisoners, including a woman, were executed during a week, in different cities. Two of the victims were hanged in public. The woman was hanged in the Prison of Noshahr, in northern Iran, on Wednesday, 17 July, 2019. According to the state-run news agency, IRNA, the General and... Read More

The Iranian authorities have flogged and secretly executed two boys under the age of 18 over multiple charges of rape, Amnesty International reported on Monday, condemning the country’s “utter disdain for international law and children’s’ rights”. Cousins Mehdi Sohrabifar and Amin Sedaghat, who were arrested at the age of 15... Read More

Iranian regime has executed at least four prisoners since April, in the prisons of Gorgan, Adelabad and Dastgerd. On Monday, 15 April, 2019, a prisoner identified as Abdal Zahedani (Ghanbarzehi) was executed on drug related charges in Dastgerd Prison of Isfahan, central Iran. On Monday, 15 April, 2019, a prisoner identified as... Read More

The family of a young man who was sentenced to death at 15 years old were informed by prison authorities that their son would be executed soon. The man was sentenced to death in Iran despite the provincial state medical examiner’s report that Mohammad Kalhori was not mentally mature when he allegedly committed murder. Kalhori’s... Read More

A woman was hanged on Wednesday, 30 January, 2019, in Nowshahr Prison, the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran. The woman identified only as M.A, was convicted of “killing her husband.”  She had spent six years on death row. The woman is the 87th woman who is executed under Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian regime’s... Read More

Three Kurdish political prisoners, Ramin Hossein Panahi, Zaniar and Loghman Moradi, were executed. Despite Iranian, Kurdish and international efforts to stop the executions, Iranian authorities executed these three long-time Kurdish prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi, along with Zaniar and Loghman Moradi, 0n 8 September. ars News agency,... Read More

Zanyar and Loghman Moradi have been to solitary confinement and according to Loghman’s father; they are on a dry hunger strike, and a few hours after their transfer, the public phones in Rajai Shahr Prison were cut off without any explanation which is worrying their family. There are fears that these tow political prisoners and Ramin... Read More

Mohammad Hossein Maleki, sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court on the charge of “corruption on earth” through the sale of CCcam and unlocking satellite channels”, was transferred to solitary confinement, on Sunday, 29 July. Mohammad Hossein Maleki, the manager of Asre-Javan website and its Telegram channel who is held at... Read More

Zeynab Jalalian, Kurdish political prisoner in Iran, in an open letter, has called for spreading protests with the aim of abolishing the death sentence in Iran. Zeynab Jalalian had been sentenced to death but her sentence was reduced to life time imprisonment after 4 years. She has expressed her concern about the death sentence of political... Read More