Iran: Five Executions in Less Than a Week at Sanandaj Prison
Iran Human Rights (IHR); April 29, 2020: With the execution of another man on April 28 in Sanandaj prison, the total number of executions in the prison during six days has reached five. The execution is carried out while the Islamic Republic’s authorities had usually been reluctant to execute people in the Muslims’ fasting month, Ramadan, during the past years. However, several people have been executed in the first days of Ramadan 2020.
According to IHR sources, death-row prisoner Faegh Sharifi was hanged on Tuesday, April 28, 2020. “Faegh was sentenced to death for murdering his neighbour,” the source told IHR.
The Hengaw website that first published the news reported that Mr Sharifi was the father of three.
His execution is carried out while the Islamic Republic’s authorities had usually been reluctant to execute people in the Muslims’ fasting month, Ramadan, during the past years. However, several people have been executed in the first days of Ramadan 2020.
Executions in Iran have continued to be carried out even after the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the country.
Only in Sanandaj prison, at least five people were executed in the past six days.
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