{"id":5679,"date":"2025-03-17T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/?p=5679"},"modified":"2025-03-17T12:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:23:27","slug":"four-prisoners-including-two-women-executed-in-urmia-central-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/executions\/four-prisoners-including-two-women-executed-in-urmia-central-prison","title":{"rendered":"Four Prisoners, Including Two Women, Executed in Urmia Central Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>March 17, 2025<br \/>\nCategory: Executions<\/p>\n<p>Breathing in Confinement \u2013 At dawn on Sunday, March 16, 2025, the death sentences of at least four prisoners convicted of \u201cmurder\u201d were carried out in Urmia Central Prison (Darya).<\/p>\n<p>According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran, four prisoners, including two women, were executed in Urmia Central Prison (Darya) on Sunday morning, March 16, 2025. The identities of these prisoners\u2014Mojgan Azarpisheh, Kosar Baghernejad, Arshad Farzadband, and Hamed Faraji\u2014have been confirmed by Breathing in Confinement.<\/p>\n<p>As per the Breathing in Confinement sources, Arshad Farzadband, son of Ebrahim, a 28-year-old from Nari Margour village near Urmia, was arrested in 2019 on charges of murder and sentenced to death. Hamed Faraji, a 34-year-old from Urmia, was arrested in 2017 on murder charges and sentenced to death by the Urmia Criminal Court.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, according to Breathing in Confinement, citing the human rights organization Hengaw, Mojgan Azarpisheh, a 31-year-old from Urmia, was arrested six years ago for the alleged murder of a pregnant woman and sentenced to death. Another female prisoner, Kosar Baghernejad, a 24-year-old from Naqadeh, was arrested two years ago for allegedly murdering her husband and was sentenced to death.<\/p>\n<p>The executions were carried out at dawn on Sunday, March 16, in Urmia Central Prison (Darya).<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-1 overflow-hidden @container\/thread translate-y-[2rem] -mt-[2rem] pb-[1.5rem]\">\n<div class=\"relative h-full\">\n<div class=\"flex h-full flex-col overflow-y-auto [scrollbar-gutter:stable]\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col text-sm md:pb-9\">\n<article class=\"w-full text-token-text-primary focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-[-4px]\" dir=\"auto\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-7\" data-scroll-anchor=\"true\">\n<div class=\"m-auto text-base py-[18px] px-6\">\n<div class=\"mx-auto flex flex-1 text-base gap-4 md:gap-5 lg:gap-6 md:max-w-3xl\">\n<div class=\"group\/conversation-turn relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn @xs\/thread:px-0 @sm\/thread:px-1.5 @md\/thread:px-4\">\n<div class=\"flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"mb-2 flex gap-3 empty:hidden -ml-2\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"items-center justify-start rounded-xl p-1 flex\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center\"><strong>No official report<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As of the time of this report, the execution of these prisoners has not been announced by official resources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Annual Report on Executions in Iran<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the annual report of the Statistics Center of the\u00a0<strong>Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran<\/strong>, at least\u00a0<strong>848 citizens\u00a0<\/strong>were executed in 2023. Of these, 7 were executed in public.<strong>\u00a057 percent of the executions<\/strong>\u00a0were for drug related charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; March 17, 2025 Category: Executions Breathing in Confinement &ndash; At dawn on Sunday, March 16, 2025, the death sentences of at least four prisoners convicted of &ldquo;murder&rdquo; were carried out in Urmia Central Prison (Darya). According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners&rsquo; Rights League in Iran, four prisoners, including two [&hellip;]<\/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-5679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-executions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yHPi-1tB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679","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=5679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5690,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions\/5690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}