Execution of a prisoner in Urmia Prison

Hengaw: The death sentence of a citizen who was sentenced to death for drug-related crimes was carried out in Urmia Central Prison.

According to a report received by Hengaw, early in the morning on Monday, 2022, a Kurdish citizen from Salmas, identified as Ebrahim Nasirkhah, 44, was executed in Urmia Central Prison.

Ebrahim Nasirkhah was arrested by police in 2019 and later sentenced to death by the judiciary for "drug-related crimes."

It is worth mentioning that this prisoner went to the gallows at least two more times during the last two years and his execution was postponed at the last moment.