Iran: Prisoner Executed on Drug Related Charges

According to close sources, the execution was carried out by Iranian authorities on Monday December 12. Close sources have confirmed the identity of the prisoner as 33-year-old Soleiman Kake-Allahnejad. Mr. Kake-Allahnejad was reportedly sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court in Maragheh on the charge of possessing one kilogram and 50 grams of crack.

A source close to Mr. Kake-Allahnejad tells Iran Human Rights: "Soleiman, who has a four-year-old daughter, was arrested in 2012 and was sentenced to death in October 2013 by the second branch of the revolutionary court in Maragheh, presided by Judge Ghaffari. In court, Soleiman denied the charges against him and insisted that the drugs they found in the tire of his car did not belong to him. Nonetheless, they still executed him."

Mr. Kake-Allahnejad was reportedly transferred to solitary confinement prior to his execution. Another prisoner, Yousef Bakhshoudeh, who was convicted in the same case file as Mr. Kake-Allahnejad and transferred to solitary confinement along with him, was not executed for unknown reasons.

Iranian official sources, including the media and Judiciary, have been silent about Mr. Kake-Allahnejad's execution.