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Execution of Saeed Abbasi Carried Out at Dizelabad Prison in Kermanshah

16-April-2025

Category: executions

16 April 2025
News Category: Execution

Breathing in Confinement – At dawn on Monday, 14 April 2025, the death sentence of at least one prisoner convicted of drug-related charges was carried out at Kermanshah Prison.

According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, a prisoner was hanged at Dizelabad Prison in Kermanshah in the early hours of Monday, 14 April 2025. The identity of the executed individual has been confirmed as Saeed Abbasi.

According to the same report, Saeed Abbasi, son of Davoud, a native of Aligudarz born in 2001, was arrested two years ago on drug-related charges and sentenced to death. His sentence was carried out at dawn on Monday, 14 April 2025, at Dizelabad Prison in Kermanshah.

 

No official report

As of the time of this report, the execution of this prisoner has not been announced by official resources.

Annual Report on Executions in Iran

According to the annual report by the Statistics Centre of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, at least 1,170 individuals were executed in Iran in 2024. Among them, six people were executed in public, and the executed also included 38 women and 9 juvenile offenders.

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