Another Kurdish prisoner was executed in Karaj central prison
The death sentence of a Kurdish prisoner named Reza Shokripour from Ilam, who was previously sentenced to death for drug-related crimes ...
Hengaw: February 1, 2023
The death sentence of a Kurdish prisoner named Reza Shokripour from Ilam, who was previously sentenced to death for drug-related crimes, has been executed in Karaj Central Prison.
According to a report obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Reza Shokripour, 30, a prisoner from the Zardalan Rural District of Holeylan County, Ilam Province, who was sentenced to death, was hanged in Karaj Central Prison on Sunday, January 29, 2023.
According to an informed source, Reza Shokripour is married and the father of two children. He was arrested in Karaj four years ago and later sentenced to death by the judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran on charges of drug-related crimes.
Based on the statistics registered in the Statistics and Documents Center of the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, during January 2023, at least 19 Kurdish prisoners were executed, of whom 9 were hanged in Karaj prisons.
