Five political prisoners sentenced to execution were transferred from the General Ward of Karoon Prison in Ahvaz to an unknown location on Saturday, 9 June. A local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Police Special Forces have been stationed in ...
While Iranian authorities remain silence about the executions of drug traffickers inside Mashad’s Vakilabad Prison, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has learned that seven prisoners were hanged on 11 August, and another seven were hanged on 20 September. According to information received ...
Local sources told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that 30 prisoners convicted of drug trafficking were hanged inside Mashad’s Vakilabad Prison on Wednesday, 29 June (12 inmates), and Sunday, 3 July (18 inmates). As with the other executions of drug traffickers ...
While Mohammad Bagher Bagheri, Social and Crime Prevention Deputy of South Khorasan Province Judiciary, recently announced that 140 inmates with drug trafficking charges were executed in 2010, so far no judicial officials have made any statements about why the Judiciary and the media refrain from ...
Local sources in Mashad told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that 26 more inmates were hanged at Vakilabad Prison on 15 June 2011. At the same time, the Prosecutor of Mashad Mahmoud Zoghi admitted to secret group executions and without mentioning the ...
Local sources in Khuzestan Province told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that during the past months, Judiciary authorities did not announce several executions that took place inside the province’s prisons. The Campaign previously reported of dozens of unannounced and secret executions inside ...
Reliable sources told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that ten more prisoners were hanged at Vakilabad Prison on Wednesday, 2 March. The ten prisoners were executed without their families or lawyers being informed. This news comes on the heels of the UN ...
