22-February-2022
Category: executions
Execution of a prisoner in Dastgerd prison in Isfahan
21-February-2022
Newsgroup: Execution –
Breathing in Confinement: On Saturday, February 19, 2022, the death sentence of a prisoner was carried out on drug charges in Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, a prisoner who had previously been sentenced to death on drug charges was executed on Saturday, February 19, 2022, in Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan. The prisoner, identified by Breathing in Confinement, was 36-year-old Musa Zare.
Musa Zare was reportedly arrested two years ago on drug charges and sentenced to death.
According to the Statistics Center of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, over the last one year (January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021) at least 377 prisoners have been executed in Iran on various charges, of whom, 89% were carried out secretly without being announced by the state media.