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Navid Rostami Executed in Dizelabad Prison, Kermanshah

31-July-2025

Category: executions

31 July 2025
News Category: Executions

Breathing in Confinement – The death sentence of at least one prisoner, convicted of murder, was carried out in Dizelabad Prison, Kermanshah.

According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, at dawn on Tuesday, 29 July 2025, a prisoner was hanged in the central prison of Kermanshah. The identity of the executed individual has been confirmed as Navid Rostami.

Navid Rostami, son of Allah-Karam, a resident of the village of Sarvanu in the Firouzabad district of Kermanshah, had been arrested six years ago on murder charges and sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out in Dizelabad Prison on the morning of Tuesday, 29 July 2025.

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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