Three prisoners were sentenced to death in Ahvaz
15-January-2020
Category: executions
Breathing in Confinement – at a news conference on Tuesday, January 14, the judiciary spokesman announced that three citizens in Ahvaz who were previously arrested on the charge of assaulting a police station have been sentenced to death.
According to Breathing in Confinement the news organ of Prisoners’ Rights league in Iran, quoting ISNA, Ismaili, the judiciary spokesperson, said at a news conference today that 3 prisoners were sentenced to death last week. He added that “these arrested dissidents were going to capture videos to send. So they were arrested and tried last week. Three of them were sentenced to death and the others were sentenced to 15 and 10 years in prison and one with reduction of his sentence, to 5 years in prison.”
It should be noted that in May 2016, in an attack on a police station in Mojahid Alley in Ahvaz which ended up in killing two police officers, several people were arrested in Malasheh and a 29-year-old young man was shot dead by security forces.