The death sentences of two prisoners were carried out in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj

Hengaw: Wednesday, November 1st, 2023

The death sentences of two prisoners named Yadollah Farokhi, a resident of Kuhdasht in Lorestan, and an Afghan national named Sadeq Tajik were carried out in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj.

According to the report received by the Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights, on the morning of Wednesday, November 1st, 2023, the death sentence of Yadollah Farokhi, a prisoner from Kuhdasht, was carried out in Ghezel Hesar Prison.

Hengaw had previously reported on Tuesday, October 31, the transfer of Yadollah Farokhi to a solitary confinement cell in Ghezel Hesar Prison for the execution of his death sentence. He had previously been sentenced to death for drug-related offenses.

Simultaneously, the death sentence of Sadeq Tajik, a national of Afghanistan, was also carried out in Ghezel Hesar Prison. He had been detained on charges of "‏premeditated murder" and sentenced to death.

It is noteworthy that, as of the time of this report, there has been no official announcement of the execution of these two prisoners in government-sanctioned media outlets, particularly those aligned with the judiciary.

Based on the statistics registered in the Statistics and Documents Center of the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, during October 2023, at least 78 prisoners in Iranian prisons had their death sentences executed, and the execution of death sentences for 5 Afghan nationals is also documented in this list.