Three Inmates Executed in Khorramabad Prison

HRANA, Human Rights Activists News Agency- On May 18, 2023, three inmates convicted of murder were executed in Khorramabad Prison.

HRANA has identified one of these inmates as Ali Khorramshah Amraie. HRANA is working to identify the remaining two executed inmates.

As of the time of writing, no official sources or media outlets within the country have reported on these executions

In recent weeks, the number of execution has been alarmingly raised. According to reports obtained by HRANA, at least 57 prisoners, including two women and two prisoners of conscience, have been executed in various Iranian prisons from April 28 to May 9, 2023.

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.