On March 12, 2023, Araka Prison officials executed an inmate convicted of drug-related crimes.

According to reports obtained by HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, on March 12, 2023, an inmate identified as Salman Momeni was executed in Arak Prison, Markazi Province, Iran.

An informed source told HRANA, “Momeni was executed without having last family visitation.”

None of the official sources and media outlets inside the country has reported this execution 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.