Prisoner Hanged on Drug Charges

Iran Human Rights (JAN 18 2017): A prisoner was reportedly hanged at Bandar Abbas Central Prison on drug related charges. According to close sources, the execution was carried out on the morning of Tuesday Janaury 17. The prisoner has been identified as Ramezan Yousef Heydari, 36 years old.

Mr. Yousef Heydari was arrested on March 2, 2011 on the charges of possession and trafficking 900 grams of crystal meth and two kilograms and 200 grams of crack. He was sentenced to death on May 1, 2013 by the Bandar Abbas Revolutionary Court.

"Ramezan drove a Saipa vehicle, and the day they arrested him, they discovered the drugs in the tire of his car - but the drugs weren't his. He never once confessed that the drugs were his," a source close to Mr. Yousef Heydari tells Iran Human Rights.

Iranian official sources, including the Judiciary and the media, have not announced Mr. Yousef Heydari's execution.