Kurdish prisoner Yaser Jalilian executed in Kermanshah Central Prison

Hengaw - Monday, May 26, 2025

The execution of Yaser Jalilian, a Kurdish prisoner from Kermanshah (Kermashan), was carried out in the city's central prison following a conviction for “premeditated murder.”

According to information obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Jalilian was executed on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, in the central prison( Dizel Abad) of Kermanshah. He had been arrested several years earlier and sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary on charges of murder.

The state-affiliated media, particularly outlets linked to the judiciary, had not announced the execution.