Prioner Executed on Drug Related Charges

Iran Human Rights (December 28 2016): A prisoner was reportedly executed at Bandar Abbas Central Prison (Hormozgan province, southern Iran) on Tuesday December 27. According to close sources, the prisoner, Khaled Jowhari, was executed for possession and trafficking one kilogram and 850 grams of crystal meth and approximately half a kilogram of crack. Mr. Jowhari was reportedly arrested on Saturday November 5, 2011 and sentenced to death by the revolutionary court in Bandar Abbas on Tuesday August 14, 2012.

Iranian official sources, including the Judiciary and the media, have been silent about this execution.

Iranian authorities continue to implement death sentences for drug related offenses at a high rate even when an urgent plan was approved in the Iranian Parliament last week calling for a halt to the execution of prisoners on death row for drug related offenses. Additionally, Iranian Parliament members recently sent a joint letter to the head of Iran's Judiciary asking for the imminent execution of approximately five thousand drug-related prisoners to be stopped pending further review of their cases.