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Iranwire – Two prisoners were executed at dawn on Thursday at Isfahan Central Prison without prior notification to their families or an opportunity for final visits.
Mehdi Salehzadeh, 35, from Rasht, and Abdollah Khademi, 41, from Urmia, were put to death on drug-related charges.
Khademi, a resident of Tabriz and a father of three, had been living in the northwestern city before his arrest.
Both men had been tried and sentenced to death by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s judiciary in separate cases.
The executions were carried out without any announcement in state media or judiciary-affiliated outlets.
They were conducted in secret at the central prison facility in Isfahan, a major city in central Iran.
According to Amnesty International, Iran has reached its highest level of executions in the past eight years, with the judiciary executing 853 people in 2023 alone.
The report indicates that 481 executions – more than half of the total – were related to drug crimes.
This represents an 89 per cent increase in death penalties for drug-related offenses compared to 2022, when 255 people were executed.
