At Least 28 Prisoners Executed Since July 11th
17-July-2016
Category: executions
Breathing in Confinement – By the report of five more executed in Arak prison, the number of executions in Iran in the past week rose to at least 28.
HRANA News Agency has announced in a report that five people have been executed in Arak prison on July 11.
Masood Taqi-Pour, Hasan Farajpoor, Mehdi Bagheri, Bagher Jalili and Hamid Haghvin, prisoners who had been charged with transporting and storing drugs, were hanged in this prison.
The same source has announced the name of people who were executed in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj on July 13, as Saeid Hosseinkhani from ward 4, Saeid Ahmadi and Hassan Ahmadi from ward 2 of Darul-Quran, Saeid Akbari from ward 1, Hassan Javadi from ward 1 and Kazem Khadem Rezaeian from ward 6.
At least 28 prisoners have been executed in Iran between July 11 and 17.