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Iran: Five Prisoners Executed at One Prison in One Day

7 Aug 19
Iran: Five Prisoners Executed at One Prison in One Day

Iran Human Rights (IHR); August 7, 2019: Five prisoners were hanged for murder charges at the Iranian city of Karaj’s Rajai-Shahr prison Wednesday.

According to IHR sources, on the morning of Wednesday, August 7, at least 5 prisoners were hanged at Karaj city’s Rajai-Shahr prison, near Tehran. All were sentenced to death for murder charges. 

Three of them were identified by IHR sources as Mohammadreza Shokri, Yousef Zakeri and Hossein Panjeh-Maryam. 

None of the above-mentioned execution has been announced by Iranian media or officials so far. 

At least 110 people were executed in Iran in the first half of 2019; Only 37 of the executions have been announced by authorities or Iranian media. Iran Human Rights (IHR) could confirm 73 more through its sources. IHR only reports the unannounced executions if it could confirm those with two separate credible sources. Therefore, the actual number of executions may be even higher than reported.

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.