December 26, 2024
\nNews Category: Execution<\/p>\n
Breathing in Confinement: At dawn on Wednesday, December 25, the death sentences of at least four prisoners, convicted on charges related to \u201cdrug offenses\u201d and \u201cmurder,\u201d were carried out in Adelabad Prison, Shiraz.<\/p>\n
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran, four prisoners were executed early Wednesday, December 25, in Shiraz Central Prison for charges involving \u201cdrug offenses\u201d and \u201cmurder.\u201d Their identities\u2014Mahmoud Keshavarzi, Zabihollah Eslami, Hamed Ranjbar, and Kateb Seydnian\u2014have been confirmed by Breathing in Confinement. Earlier, the execution of Mahmoud Keshavarzi had been reported by Breathing in Confinement.<\/p>\n
Based on information from Breathing in Confinement reporters, Zabihollah Eslami was arrested in 2017 following a dispute over a piece of land that led to the murder of his friend. His family was unable to obtain pardon from the victim\u2019s family, and his sentence was carried out at dawn on Wednesday. Kateb Seydnian, an Afghan national, was also executed for \u201cmurder.\u201d Mahmoud Keshavarzi and Hamed Ranjbar had been arrested in separate cases related to \u201cdrug offenses\u201d and sentenced to death.<\/p>\n
All four executions were carried out at dawn on Wednesday, December 25, in Shiraz Central Prison.<\/p>\n
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No official report<\/strong><\/p>\n As of the time of this report, the execution of these prisoners has not been announced by official resources.<\/p>\n Annual Report on Executions in Iran<\/strong><\/p>\n According to the annual report of the Statistics Center of the\u00a0Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran<\/strong>, at least\u00a0848 citizens\u00a0<\/strong>were executed in 2023. Of these, 7 were executed in public.\u00a057 percent of the executions<\/strong>\u00a0were for drug related charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 26, 2024 News Category: Execution Breathing in Confinement: At dawn on Wednesday, December 25, the death sentences of at least four prisoners, convicted on charges related to “drug offenses” and “murder,” were carried out in Adelabad Prison, Shiraz. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-executions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yHPi-1pU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5452,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450\/revisions\/5452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}