Reports from various media outlets indicate that from Saturday, July 20 to Saturday, July 27, the death sentences of 30 prisoners were carried out in Iran.
This means that approximately four prisoners were executed daily during this period, indicating a surge in execution rates following the presidential elections in Iran.
The human rights news agency HRANA reported that three prisoners convicted on drug-related charges were executed at dawn on July 27 in Parsilon Prison in Khorramabad.
Two days earlier, Kamran Sheikheh, a political prisoner from Mahabad, was executed at dawn on Thursday, July 25, in Urmia Prison.
Meanwhile, the death sentence of Hassan Yousefi-Azar, a prisoner from Naqadeh convicted of premeditated murder, was also carried out in the same prison.
Human rights media reported that Ghadir Jamshidi was also executed on the same day in Torbat Jam Prison.
These media outlets also reported the execution of two prisoners, Hamed Naderi and Ali Mahramkhani, on Thursday in Choobindar Prison in Qazvin, and an Afghan citizen a day earlier in Qaen Prison in South Khorasan Province.
Khorasan newspaper also reported that a person named Ramazan was executed on July 24 in Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad on charges of premeditated murder.
Seven prisoners, including three women, were executed on July 23 in Birjand Prison, and an Afghan national in Bandar Abbas Prison.
A day earlier, Danial Kazeminejad and Khalil Jamali were executed in Dieselabad Prison in Kermanshah, and Hassan Fallahi in Qom Prison.
Human rights activists also reported that on July 20 and 21, “nine prisoners” sentenced to death were executed in Adelabad Prison in Shiraz, Ghezelhesar Prison in Karaj, and Khorramabad Central Prison.
These executions have taken place despite warnings from prisoners involved in the “No to Executions on Tuesdays” campaign, who had warned in early July during their 24th week of hunger strike about the potential increase in executions following the elections.
These prisoners, spread across various prisons in the country, pointed to the historical pattern of increased executions after each election in the Iranian regime, citing the death sentence for labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi and the arrest of Rana Kokor, the sister of a political prisoner sentenced to death, as signs of this “troubling” trend.
In the first six months of 2024, at least 249 people were executed in Iran, 147 of whom were on drug-related charges.
