A Kurdish prisoner executed in the central prison of Karaj

The death sentence of a Kurdish prisoner named Sharaf Khan Akbari from Harsin, Kermanshah, who was previously sentenced to death for drug-related charges ...

24 January 2023 14:06

 

Hengaw: Monday, January 23, 2023

The death sentence of a Kurdish prisoner named Sharaf Khan Akbari from Harsin, Kermanshah, who was previously sentenced to death for drug-related charges, was carried out in Karaj Central Prison.

According to the report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, at dawn on Wednesday, January 18, 2023, the death sentence of Sharaf Khan Akbari, from Harsin, was carried out in the central prison of Karaj.

According to an informed source, this citizen from Harsin, Kermanshah, was arrested three years ago on charges related to drug trafficking and was later sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary.

So far, the news of the execution of this prisoner has not been announced in the government media or the media related to the judiciary.

Based on the statistics registered in the Statistics and Documents Center of Hengaw, in the last three weeks, at least seven Kurdish citizens have been executed in Karaj prisons.


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