Two prisoners are executed in Urmia Prison
22-July-2020
Category: executions
Breathing in Confinement: On Monday, July 21, 2020, the death sentences of two prisoners who had been arrested and sentenced to death on murder charges, were carried out.
According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, on the morning of July 20, two prisoners, Asad Keshavarz and Amin Safarkesh were executed in Urmia Central Prison.
The two prisoners had been transferred to solitary confinement on Sunday, July 19, along with another prisoner named Baitullah Motalebi.
Baitullah Motalebi however, after agreeing with the blood owners on a deadline for paying the blood money, was returned back to the counseling ward.
According to the Statistics Center of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, 114 executions were carried out by the authorities of the Islamic Republic in the first six months of 2020.