HRANA News Agency – The death sentences of 6 prisoners who were charged with drug related crimes and had been transferred to solitary confinements, was executed in the Central Prison of Urmia.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), 6 prisoners from ward 15 of the Central Prison of Urmia who had been charged with drug related crimes, were hanged, in this prison. Continue reading “6 Prisoners Executed in Urmia”
HRANA News Agency – Two of the six prisoners who had been sentenced to death, were executed following lack of consent by the plaintiff in the Central Prison of Urmia, and the other four were returned to the general ward.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), two of six prisoners, who had been taken to solitary confinement in the Central Prison of Urmia, were executed and two of them obtained the plaintiff’s consents and the other two received respite for one month and for 5 days respectively. Continue reading “2 Prisoners Executed in Urmia Prison”
HRANA News Agency – At least two prisoners were executed in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj, and a number of other prisoners were returned to the cell from the gallows.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), at dawn on Wednesday 11th May, at least two prisoners were hanged in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj. Continue reading “At Least 2 Prisoners Executed in Rajai Shahr Prison”
HRANA News Agency – More than 100 death row prisoners with drug related charges are kept in Uremia prison. HRANA is trying to get the public attention to this issue with the hope that public awareness could be a help in prevention of these executions. For this reason the names of 69 death row prisoners who have been identified recently, are being published.
In continuation of publishing the names of death row prisoners in Uremia prison, the names of 69 other prisoners who are charged with drug related charges and kept in ward number 15 of Uremia prison is hereby being published. Continue reading “The List of the Names of other 69 Death Row Prisoners in Uremia Prison”
HRANA News Agency – Reza Hosseini, 34, from Koohdasht in Lorestan Province, was one of the four prisoners who were executed with drug related charges on Tuesday, May 3. His mother and wife not only did not find the chance to visit him after traveling 840 km, but also were insulted by prison authorities.
According to his wife, judge Tayarani has responded to Mr. Hosseini’s claim that he was innocent: “no problem; if you are innocent you will be sent to heaven after execution”. Continue reading ““If You Are Innocent, You Will Go to Heaven.” Judge Told a Death Row Prisoner”
HRANA News Agency – Farzad Kamangar, a teacher and human rights activist who was executed in the morning of May 9, 2010 along with Ali Heidarian, Farhad Vakili, Shirin Alam Holi and Mehdi Eslamian in Evin prison, in his short life, due to his human concerns and by his formidable pen wrote open letters addressed to the Iranian society. Letters full of humane emotion, hope, resistance, peace and equality. The letter called; “Be strong Comrades” is one of his latest letters which was written by Farzad in May 2010. The letter was addressed to imprisoned teachers at that time. The sound track of the letter in which Farzad Kamangar reads this letter is being published for the first time, now:
Continue reading “An Unpublished Sound Track of Farzad Kamangar”HRANA News Agency – Retaliation sentence of “blinding eyes with acid” of the second eye of Mojtaba Yasawoli (Saheli) will be executed in Rajai Shahr prison, in Karaj on May 17th. Blinding Mojtaba Saheli’s first eye was the first sentence for acid attack crime in Iran which was carried out in 2014. He has been given time to pay the blood money and the cost of treating victim of the acid attack, to avoid the second eye blinding sentence.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), retaliation sentence of “Blinding eyes with acid” of the second eye of Mojtaba Yasawoli (Saheli) who had blinded someone with acid in 2009, will run in Rajai Shahr prison, in Karaj. Continue reading “A Prisoner’s Second Eye Will Be Gouged Out in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj”
HRANA News Agency – On May 9, 2010, Farzad Kamangar, teacher and human rights activist, along with four other political prisoners named Ali Heydarian, Shirin Alam Holi, Farhad Vakili and Mehdi Eslamian were executed after a flawed judicial process, secretly and without the knowledge of their lawyers and families at the parking of Evin prison.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), the execution verdict of Farzad Kamangar and four other prisoners among the unprecedented wave of domestically and internationally protests, was carried out while according to the documents, their judicial process was full of specific cases of rights violation including detention in contravention of the law, the long-term maintenance in solitary confinement without access to a lawyer during detention, physical and psychological torture against them especially in the case of three of them in detention centers of Sanandaj and Kermanshah, as well as numerous procedural violations, so that at least three of the defendants (Farzad Kamangar, Farhad Vakili and Ali Heydarian) were known as “Muhareb” and the death sentence was issued a for them without their chance of defense in a seven-minute-long court. Continue reading “The Graves of 5 Political Prisoners Executed on May 9, 2010 Are still Unknown”
HRANA News Agency – at least 100 prisoners with homicide charges are kept on wards number 4 and 5 in Uremia prison. HRANA is trying to gain public attention in order to save them from execution by publicizing their identities. For this reason identity of 55 prisoners under death row is following.
According to Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – following call of around 100 prisoners in Uremia prison by authorities and announcement of “deciding their faith” on next three months and finding complaints addresses, identity of 56 prisoners who are mainly charged with homicide and are kept in ward 4 and 5 of prison, is publicizing by HRANA. Need to be mentioned that three prisoners on this list has been kept in prison for past 27 years each. Continue reading “The List of the Names of 55 Death Row Prisoners in Uremia Prison”
HRANA News Agency – The death sentences of at least four prisoners with drug related charges were executed in Ghezelhesar prison in Karaj. Three of these prisoners were kept in Ghezelhesar prison and the other one was kept in Great Prison of Tehran (Fashafooyeh).
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), at least four prisoners of Ghezelhesar and Fashafooyeh prisons with drug related charges were executed on Tuesday, May 3, 2016, at Ghezelhesar prison. Continue reading “At Least 4 Prisoners Hanged In Ghezelhesar Prison In Karaj”
