HRANA News Agency – Hossein Bozorgnejad, prisoner who was sentenced to death on charges of drug trafficking, was hanged in Isfahan prison.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), the death sentence against Hossein Bozorgnejad, 27, native of Shiraz, was executed in Isfahan prison on Sunday 9th August. Continue reading “A Prisoner Hanged in the Prison of Isfahan”
HRANA News Agency – Sirvan Nazhavi, political prisoner, was hanged in the prison of Tabriz.
Hossein Nazhavi, Sirvan Nazhavi’s brother, after announcing this news in an interview with HRANA’s reporter said that during a contact by the prison authorities they had been asked to collect his brother’s body from Tabriz prison, on Sunday afternoon 8th August. Continue reading “Sirvan Nazhavi, Kurdish Political Prisoner Executed in Tabriz Prison”
HRANA News Agency – Hossein Bozorgnejad is scheduled to be taken to the gallows in some hours.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Hossein Bozorgnejad has been sentenced to death on charge of drug trafficking and is scheduled to be executed today in Isfahan Prison. Continue reading “A Prisoner Scheduled to Be Executed Today in Isfahan”
HRANA News Agency – The following video footage shows a public lashing in Padadshahr in Ahwaz, on a prisoner who according to the loudspeaker on the ground was sentenced to 4 years in prison and 74 lashes on charge of theft, in branch number 15 of criminal court. The chief judge Gharooni is the executioner of the sentence. Continue reading “Video Footage of Public Lashing in Padadshahr in Ahwaz”
HRANA News Agency – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, yesterday urged the Iranian authorities to immediately commute the death penalty recently handed down to Mohammad Ali Tehari, a well-known author of alternative medical theories practiced in Iran and abroad, and founder ofErfan-e-Halgheh (Inter-Universalism), an arts and culture institute in Tehran which promoted healing concepts.
Mr. Taheri was reportedly sentenced to death on 1 August on charges of ‘Fisad-fil-Arz’ (‘Corruption on Earth’), while he was serving a five year sentence. He was arrested in May 2011 and sentenced to five years in prison for insulting Islamic sanctities. Continue reading “UN Expert Calls for an Immediate Moratorium after Iran Hands Down Death Penalty to a Prisoner of Conscience”
HRANA News Agency – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein today expressed alarm at the imposition of the death penalty on Mohammad Ali Taheri, the founder of a spiritual movement, writer and practitioner of alternative medicine theories used in Iran and abroad. Taheri was sentenced to death on Saturday by the Revolutionary Court on a charge of Fesad fel Arz (corruption on earth).
“Iran’s use of the death penalty has long been problematic, with many executions on drug offences, several executions of people who were below the age of 18 when the crime was committed, as well as other cases where broad, ill-defined charges led to the imposition of capital punishment,” Zeid said. Continue reading “Death Sentence on Alternative Health Practitioner Highlights Alarming Use of Capital Punishment in Iran”
HRANA News Agency – Three prisoners who had been sentenced to death were hanged in Rafsanjan prison.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), these three men, all of whom were convicted of drug crimes were executed in Rafsanjan prison on Tuesday 4th August. Continue reading “3 Prisoners Executed in Rafsanjan”
HRANA News Agency – Four prisoners were hanged in the prison of Isfahan and there are 6 others waiting for execution in Bandar Abbas and Zahedan prison.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), four of those convicted of drug-related crimes were hanged in Dastgerd prison, in Isfahan on Wednesday 29th July. Two of them were from Afghanistan and two were Iranians but there is no information about the identity of these prisoners available. Continue reading “4 Prisoners Hanged in the Prison of Isfahan”
HRANA News Agency – Five prisoners, who were sentenced to death, were executed in “Shahab” prison in Kerman and 3 others were transferred to solitary confinements for execution.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), these prisoners were all sentenced to death on charge of drug related crimes who were 4 men and 1 woman. Ezat Sabeki, Meisam Shahraki and Ali Zehi are the names of three of them and others are unknown. Continue reading “5 Prisoners Executed in Shahab Prison in Kerman”
HRANA News Agency – 9 prisoners were hanged in the Central prison of Karaj.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), these 9 prisoners who had been sentenced on drug related crimes were executed in the early hours of Monday 3rd August, in the prison yard of the Central prison of Karaj. Continue reading “9 Prisoners Executed in Central Prison of Karaj”
