Iran Executions: Prisoner Hanged in Birjand

According to a close source, on the morning of Tuesday, July 17, a prisoner was executed at Birjand Central Prison. Birjand is the capital of the Iranian province of South Khorasan. 

The prisoner, sentenced to death on murder charges, was from ward 103 of Birjand Central Prison. He was identified as Baratali Shirdelan from North Khorasan.

A close source told IHR, “Baratali had been in prison for six years on the charge of murdering his wife.”

The execution on this prisoner 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.