The Number of Executed Prisoners at Isfahan Central Prison Increased to Four, Including an Afghan National

Hengaw: Friday, September 6, 2024

With the identification of two additional prisoners named Asad Khosravi and Rafi' Abdolbari, an Afghan national, the number of prisoners whose death sentences were carried out at Isfahan Central Prison on August 28, 2024, has reached four. Previously, Hengaw had reported on the execution of two other prisoners named Milad Alimohammadi and Emad Motvalian.

According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, at dawn on Wednesday, August 28, 2024, the death sentences of Rafi' Abdolbari, a 33-year-old Afghan national who had previously been sentenced to death for “premeditated murder”, along with a prisoner from Khomeini Shahr, Isfahan, identified as Asad Khosravi, who had been sentenced to death three years ago for drug-related charges, were carried out in Dastgerd Prison, Isfahan.

Hengaw had previously reported that the death sentences of Milad Alimohammadi, 34, and Emad Motvalian, 25, two Lor-Bakhtiari and Turkish prisoners from the towns of Rezveh and Fereydan, subdivisions of Chadegan County, were carried out in Isfahan Central Prison (Dastgerd Prison).

According to Hengaw's sources, Milad Alimohammadi and Emad Motvalian were arrested five years ago in a joint case for drug-related charges and were later sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary. Three other defendants in the same case, who were Afghan nationals, were executed in the same prison last year.

To date, the news of the executions of these prisoners has not been announced in the Iranian state media, especially those affiliated with the judiciary.