The Islamic Republic’s authorities executed three prisoners, including an Afghan national, at Qom Central Prison on Tuesday.
The executed prisoners were identified as Abdulmahdi Rashadmiri, 30, an Afghan national; Saeed Motiei, 41, from Qom; and Asghar Ramazani, 34, from Karaj.
Saeed Motiei had been on the run in Turkey for seven years before his arrest in 2023 on charges of premeditated murder.
He was sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary, according to reports from the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights.
Abdulmahdi Rashadmiri, from Mazar-e-Sharif, had been in custody for three years after being charged with murder and subsequently sentenced to death.
Asghar Ramazani was arrested two years ago on charges of drug-related offenses and possession of two firearms, which led to his death sentence.
At least 166 people were executed in October, according to the Norway-based Iran Human Rights Organization.
This marks the highest number of executions in a single month since the organization began documenting them 17 years ago.
According to Amnesty International’s report, Iran has reached its highest level of executions in the past eight years, with the judiciary of the Islamic Republic executing 853 people in 2023 alone.
The report indicates that 481 executions – more than half of the total – were related to drug crimes. This represents an 89 percent increase in death penalties for drug-related offenses compared to 2022, when 255 people were executed.
Source » iranwire