{"id":6958,"date":"2025-10-08T18:05:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/?p=6958"},"modified":"2025-10-08T18:05:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:05:47","slug":"execution-of-behnam-niknam-in-amol-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/executions\/execution-of-behnam-niknam-in-amol-prison","title":{"rendered":"Execution of Behnam Niknam in Amol Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"89\"><strong>8 October 2025<\/strong><br data-start=\"62\" data-end=\"65\" \/><strong>News group: Executions \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"91\" data-end=\"243\"><strong>Breathing in Confinement \u2013<\/strong> The death sentence of at least one prisoner who had been arrested on a charge of \u201cmurder\u201d was carried out in Amol Prison.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"245\" data-end=\"426\">According to Breathing in Confinement, at dawn on Wednesday, 8 October 2025, a prisoner was executed in Amol Prison. The prisoner\u2019s identity, <strong data-start=\"389\" data-end=\"406\">Behnam Niknam<\/strong>, has been verified by Breathing in Confinement.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"428\" data-end=\"649\">Behnam Niknam, from Amol, had previously been arrested on a murder charge following an altercation and sentenced to death. His sentence was carried out at dawn on Wednesday, 8 October 2025, in Amol Prison.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>No official report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As of the time of this report, the execution of this prisoner has not been announced by official sources.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Annual Report on Executions in Iran<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the annual report by the Statistics Centre of the Prisoners\u2019 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 October 2025News group: Executions &ndash; Breathing in Confinement &ndash; The death sentence of at least one prisoner who had been arrested on a charge of &ldquo;murder&rdquo; was carried out in Amol Prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, at dawn on Wednesday, 8 October 2025, a prisoner was executed in Amol Prison. The prisoner&rsquo;s identity, [&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-6958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-executions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yHPi-1Oe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958","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=6958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6960,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958\/revisions\/6960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}