Iran Executions: Two Prisoners Hanged in Karaj

According to a close source, on the morning of Wednesday, June 27, two prisoners were executed at Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj. The prisoners, charged with murder, were identified as Safa Ali Jalali from ward 1 and Majid Heydari from ward 7.

The prisoners were transferred to the solitary confinement in a group of 11. Eight of them were able to ask for time from the plaintiffs and return to their cells and one of them, named Javad Darabi, is still held at the solitary confinement.

A close source told IHR, “Javad Darabi was transferred to the solitary confinement a week earlier by mistake. He will be executed next week. Now he has to stay in the solitary confinement until next week in this hot weather.”

The execution of these prisoners has not been announced by the state-run media so far.

According to Iran Human Rights annual report on the death penalty, 240 of the 517 execution sentences in 2017 were implemented due to murder charges. There is a lack of a classification of murder by degree in Iran which results in issuing a death sentence for any kind of murder regardless of intensity and intent.