3 Men and a Woman Executed in Khorramabad

According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, three men and a woman were executed in Khorramabad Central Prison on 27 July. Two of the men’s identities have been established as 40-year-old Ardeshir Maleki from Kouhdasht and 33-year old Azim Amrayi from Aligoudarz. The third man and woman were not identified at the time of writing.

All four were sentenced to drug-related charges by the Revolutionary Court in separate cases.

At the time of writing, none of their executions have been reported by domestic media or officials in Iran. The unidentified woman is the 15th woman to be executed in 2024.

Drug-related executions have continuously risen every year since 2021. According to IHRNGO’s 2023 Annual Report on the Death Penalty, at least 471 people were executed for drug-related charges, an 84% increase compared to 2022 (256) and about 18 times the average of drug-related executions in 2018-2020. In the first six months of 2024, at least 147 people were executed for the charges.

On 10 April 2024, 80+ Iranian and international organisations and groups called for joint action to stop drug-related executions, urging UNODC to make “any cooperation with the Islamic Republic contingent on a complete halt on drug-related executions.”