Iran Executions: Prisoner Hanged in Tabriz

According to a close source, on the morning of Wednesday, August 15, a prisoner was hanged at Tabriz Central Prison. The prisoner, identified as Milad Zia, was sentenced to death on murder charges.

According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network, Milad Zia was arrested and sentenced to death on the charge of murdering four people including a government official.

IHR sources said that another prisoner, named Ali Narimani, was transferred to the solitary confinement along with Milad but he returned to his cell by winning the consent of the plaintiffs.

The execution of 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.