Four More Prisoners Executed in Iran

Iranwire – Authorities of the Islamic Republic executed four more prisoners over the weekend as death penalties continue to rise in the country.

The Iran Human Rights Organization reported that three inmates were executed on April 27 in Tabriz Prison for drug-related offenses.

The inmates were identified as Amir Moharrami, 36, Davoud Namyari, 33, and Sohrab Hokmabad. 

Mohammadi was convicted two years prior, while Namyari and Hokmabad’s convictions were three years old.

The report also mentions that two other death row inmates, a man and a woman, were briefly moved to solitary confinement but later returned to the general prison population. 

The woman faced murder charges, while details about the man’s charges remain undisclosed.

Iraj Sanambari, a 37-year-old man from Arak, was executed on April 27, 2024, at Arak Central Prison, according to a report by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. 

Sanambari had been convicted by the Arak Revolutionary Court on drug-related charges three years before his execution.

According to a report by Amnesty International, Iran has reached its highest level of death sentence execution in the last eight years, with the judiciary of the Islamic Republic executing 853 people in 2023 alone.

The report indicates that 481 executions, more than half of the total, were related to drug crimes. 

This marks an 89 percent rise in the death penalty compared to 2022, when 255 people were executed for drug-related offenses. The latest numbers also show a staggering 264 percent increase compared to 2021, when 132 individuals faced execution for similar charges.