According to human rights sources, from Saturday, July 20 to Thursday, July 25, at least 27 prisoners were executed in the prisons of Urmia, Bandar Abbas, Birjand, Torbat-e Jam, Khorramabad, Shiraz, Qaen, Qazvin, Qom, Karaj, Kermanshah, and Mashhad. The Iranian regime has executed at least one person every five hours over the past six days.
Among those executed, four were female prisoners, and three were citizens of Afghanistan.
On Thursday, July 25, a prisoner named Ghader Jamshidi was executed in Torbat-e Jam prison.
On this day, two other prisoners named Hamed Naderi and Ali Moharramkhani, who had been sentenced to death in a case, were executed in Chubindar prison in Qazvin.
On Thursday in Urmia prison, Hassan Yousefi-Azar was executed for murder, and Kamran Sheikheh, a Kurdish political prisoner, was also executed.
Previously, six of Sheikheh’s co-defendants had been executed.
On Wednesday, July 24, a prisoner in Vakilabad prison in Mashhad and a prisoner named Golab Shah Nurzeh, who was from Afghanistan, were executed.
On this day, another Afghan prisoner named Motiallah Barakzi was executed in Qaen Central Prison.
Before these instances, on Tuesday, July 23, the death sentences of seven prisoners, including three women who had previously been sentenced to death in separate cases, were carried out in Birjand prison.
On Monday, July 22, a prisoner named Hassan Fallahi was executed in Qom prison.
On Sunday, July 21, two prisoners named Danial Kazemi-Nejad and Khalil Jamali were executed in Dizelabad prison in Kermanshah.
On this day, four other prisoners were executed in Qezel Hesar prison in Karaj.
On Saturday, July 20, the sentences of four prisoners, including one woman, were carried out in Adelabad prison in Shiraz.
The executed woman was named Mahmoudinia. She was arrested for the murder of her fiancé and sentenced to qisas (retaliatory punishment). She was not willing to marry him and had been forced into the engagement by her family.
On the same day, the death sentence of a prisoner named Saeed Sepahvand was carried out in Parsilon prison in Khorramabad.
These executions indicate that the Iranian regime has executed at least 27 prisoners over the past six days, averaging one execution every five hours.
According to human rights organizations, more than 290 people have been hanged in various prisons in Iran since the beginning of this year.
Reports indicate an intensification of execution sentences in the days following the presidential elections.
Iranian regime officials reduce the implementation of sentences to encourage people to participate in elections, and immediately after the elections, the number of executions sharply increases.
Amnesty International, in its latest annual report on the death penalty worldwide, highlighted the significant increase in executions in Iran, reporting that nearly 75% of all recorded executions last year occurred in Iran.
According to this report, following the Mahsa Jina Amini movement, the Iranian regime has increased the use of the death penalty to instill fear among the populace and intensify its control over power.
