/ IHRights“We need more international reactions to Iran’s human rights crisis,” says IHRNGO Director Mahmoud Amiry-Moghaddam. Norway has expressed deep concern over the human rights situation in Iran and condemned the growing use of executions to silence dissent, particularly in https://t.co/N78oTT94BD26 Oct

Iran: At Least Four Men Executed at One Prison in One Day

4 Oct 19
Iran: At Least Four Men Executed at One Prison in One Day

Iran Human Rights (IHR); October 4, 2019: At least four men were executed at Rajai-Shahr Prison, near Tehran, Wednesday.

According to IHR sources, at least four prisoners were executed on Wednesday, October 2, 2019. 

Hamid Sheikhi and Mohammadreza Ghanbari had been sentenced to death for murder charges. Hossein Roshan and Mohsen Kounani had been sentenced to death for Moharebeh (waging war against God) by armed robbery.

Their executions have not been announced by Iranian authorities or media so far. 

At least 110 people were executed in Iran in the first half of 2019.