At dawn on Sunday, October 5, four prisoners were executed in Adelabad Prison in Shiraz on drug-related charges.

HRANA has identified the executed prisoners as Rahman Derakhshani (Jahanbakhsh Rakhshani), Mohammad Soltanpour, Nour Mohammad Naseri, and Farzad Rasoulzadeh.

These four prisoners had previously been arrested on drug-related charges and later sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court.

As of the time of this report, the executions have not been announced by prison authorities or official institutions.

In 2024, Iranian prisons witnessed the execution of 930 inmates. According to HRANA’s data, the number of executions carried out by the Iranian regime’s judiciary has risen steadily over the past five years. The percentage of executions related to drug charges has also increased year after year.