Breathing in Confinement, Friday, 10 July 2026: the death sentence of at least one prisoner, who had previously been arrested and sentenced to death on a murder charge, was reported to have been carried out in Kermanshah Prison.
According to reporters from Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, a prisoner was hanged in Kermanshah Prison in the early hours of Wednesday, 20 May 2026. The prisoner has been identified by Breathing in Confinement as Karim Karami.
According to the report, Karim Karami, a 52-year-old resident of Barimvand village in Kermanshah Province, had been arrested five years earlier on charges of murdering his son-in-law and was subsequently sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out in the early hours of Wednesday, 20 May 2026, at Kermanshah Prison.
No official announcement
At the time of publication, no official sources had announced the execution of this prisoner.
Annual report on executions in Iran
According to the annual report of the Statistical Centre of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, between March 2025 and March 2026, at least 2,616 individuals were executed in Iran. Of these, 12 executions were carried out in public. The executed individuals included 67 women and 8 juvenile offenders.
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