5 Men Transferred for Execution in Yazd Central Prison

According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, five men were transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions at 11am on August 16. Three of the men who are on death row for drug-related offences have identified as Saeed Kashani, Khodarahm Narouyi and Hamid Narouyi. The latter two are Baluch minorities.

The other two men who were sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, have been identified as Seyed Abbas Mousavi and Amir Ali Shirhata.

Informed sources told Iran Human Rights that all five men had last visits with their families.

At least 251 including 6 women and 67 Baluch minorities were executed in the first six months of 2022. This is double the number of executions in the same period in 2021 when 117 people were executed.