According to IHR sources, prisoners Ali Mahmoudpour and Morteza Ashrafi were hanged at Urmia prison (also known as Darya prison) on December 4, 2019
Tag: Executions
Somayeh Shahbazi Jahroei scheduled to be hanged at Sepidar Prison
The woman who is identified as Somayeh Shahbazi Jahroei (33) is sentenced to death for murdering a man six years ago. According to one of Somayeh’s relatives, “the murder victim had tried to rape Somayeh
Two men hanged in Southern Iran
According to Iran Human Rights sources, prisoners Jassem Heidari, 29, and Jamshid Torkashvand were executed for murder charges on Tuesday, November 12, 2019, at Bandar Abbas Central Prison
Man executed at Shiraz Prison on November 17
According to Iran Human Rights sources, prisoner Ebrahim Yar Hosseini was executed at Shiraz Central Prison (also known as Adel Abad prison) on the morning of Sunday, November 17
Man hanged at Maragheh prison
According to HRANA, at a time between the end of April and beginning of May, a prisoner was hanged in Maragheh prison. His identity was revealed as Vahid Nedamat, 21, from the Iranian city of Maragheh. Neither Iranian authorities nor media announced his execution
Man executed at Bandar Abbas prison in Iran
According to IHR sources, on the early morning of Thursday, November 14, a man was hanged at the central prison of the Iranian city of Bandar Abbas. His identity was revealed by IHR sources as Salman Babanzadeh, 33, from the Iranian city of Ghorveh
Man executed in Southern Iran
According to HRANA, on the morning of Wednesday, November 13, prisoner Mohammad Hossein Soltani was hanged at Bushehr prison in southern Iran. He was arrested five years ago for murdering his sister’s husband
Three men executed in Northern Iran
According to IHR sources, on the morning of Sunday, November 10, two prisoners were hanged at Rasht prison. Another prisoner was also executed on Tuesday, November 12. All were sentenced to death for murder charges
UN Urges Iran regime to end torture execution of minors and discrimination
The international community on Tuesday spoke out at the United Nations in Geneva against human rights abuses by the Iranian regime in the context of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
Four prisoners executed in Tabriz Shiraz Ardabil and Borujerd
At least four prisoners were executed in Tabriz, Shiraz, Ardabil, and Borujerd. On November 4, 2019, a prisoner was executed in Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz. Hossein Asgari was arrested in 2016 and had been imprisoned on the charge of murder
Three people sentenced to death and lashes in Tehran
Iranian authorities sentenced three prisoners to death and lashes on the charge of drug felony and sexual assault. Two prisoners were sentenced to death in Najafabad Prison in Isfahan in the past few days
