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43 Prisoners Executed Since Beginning of June

21-July-2016

Category: executions

Breathing in Confinement – By the publication of the reports of 13 executions in recent days, the number of executed death sentences in July has reached to 43.

According to the report of “Breathing in Confinement”, these 13 prisoners have been hanged in Karaj.

HRANA News Agency has announced in a report that 3 prisoners have been executed in Karaj central prison, but has not mentioned their names and identities.

Human Rights in Iran also reported the execution of 10 prisoners in Rajai Shahr prison of Karaj. All the 10 people were convicted of murder.

According to this report Mohsen Babaei and Mehdi Keshavarz from ward 2, Reza Teimori and Mohsen Khanmohammadi from ward 1 were among these prisoners. HRANA News Agency has also announced that a citizen of Afghanistan was among these prisoners.

According to the published documents, Mohsen Khanmohammadi had killed someone in a fight for “parking place” in Tehran and was convicted of murder and sentenced to death.

It is noteworthy that, since July 11 and the end of Ramadan, a new wave of executions in Iran began and 43 prisoners were executed and in the 10 days.

Two of the men were hanged in Mehrshahr Karaj in public on July 17.

The documents in the images below, are related to Mohsen Khanmohammadi who was executed yesterday:

Prisoners