HRANA News Agency – On Tuesday, February 4, a prisoner sentenced to death for murder died by suicide in Dastgerd Prison, Isfahan.

HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists in Iran, has identified the prisoner as Rasoul Ibn Ali. A source informed HRANA that he ended his life by ingesting pills and methadone, succumbing to the effects before prison medical staff could intervene.

Ibn Ali had been in prison for seven years after being convicted of murder and sentenced to death by a criminal court. On February 4, he took his own life.