Five Inmates Executed in Urmia Prison

Five Inmates Executed in Urmia Prison

On March 17, five inmates, including a woman, all convicted of drug-related crimes, were executed in Urmia Prison.

According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, on March 17, 2023, Urmia Prison officials executed five inmates convicted of drug-related crimes.

HRANA has identified these individuals as Yasin Rashidi, Asha (Foroohar) Abbasnejad, Jahanbakhsh Radlooie, Mohammad Ayoubian and Nasrin (female-last name unknown).

None of the official sources and media outlets inside the country has reported these executions at the time of writing.

In 2022, the Department of Statistics and Publication of Human Rights Activists in Iran registered 457 reports related to the death penalty. This included 92 death sentences, including the conviction of 6 people to public execution and 565 execution sentences were carried out, 2 of which have been carried out in public. Based on the announced identifications of some of the executed individuals, 501 were male and 11 were female. In addition, 5 juvenile offenders were executed in 2022, meaning they were under the age of 18 at the time they committed the crime.

 

 

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