A Kurdish citizen secretly executed in Kermanshah prison

Hengaw: In early July of this year, the death sentence of a citizen from Ilam

09 August 2021 22:44

 

Hengaw: In early July of this year, the death sentence of a citizen from Ilam province was secretly carried out in Diesel-Abad prison in Kermanshah.

According to a report received by Hengaw Human Rights Organization, on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, a 34-year-old citizen named "Massoud Esfandiari" from the village of "Kahreh" in the Holeylan district of Ilam province was executed in Diesel-Abad prison in Kermanshah.

According to the same source, Massoud Esfandiari was arrested 12 years ago for the murder of his fiancé (his cousin) and was sentenced to death by the judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

It is worth mentioning that the victim's family, because in the laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a woman's Diye (Blood money) is half that of a man, have been forced to pay 160 million tomans as a difference.


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