{"id":7489,"date":"2026-02-20T22:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/?p=7489"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:42:33","slug":"death-sentence-carried-out-on-a-prisoner-in-sarakhs-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/executions\/death-sentence-carried-out-on-a-prisoner-in-sarakhs-prison","title":{"rendered":"Death Sentence Carried Out on a Prisoner in Sarakhs Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"111\" data-end=\"227\"><strong data-start=\"176\" data-end=\"196\">19 February 2026<\/strong><br data-start=\"196\" data-end=\"199\" \/><strong data-start=\"199\" data-end=\"227\">News category: Execution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"229\" data-end=\"408\"><strong data-start=\"229\" data-end=\"257\">Breathing in Confinement<\/strong> \u2013 The death sentence of at least one prisoner, who had been arrested and sentenced to death on charges of \u201cmurder,\u201d was carried out in Sarakhs Prison.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"410\" data-end=\"769\">According to information received by reporters from Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners&#8217; Rights League in Iran, in the early hours of Thursday, 19 February 2026, a prisoner was executed by hanging in Sarakhs Prison. The identity of the prisoner has been confirmed by Breathing in Confinement as <strong data-start=\"742\" data-end=\"768\">Hassan Amani (Narouei)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"771\" data-end=\"997\"><strong>Hassan Amani,<\/strong> aged <strong data-start=\"790\" data-end=\"796\">28<\/strong>, fram Sarakhs, had been arrested five years ago on charges of \u201cmurder\u201d and sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out at dawn on Thursday, 19 February 2026, in Sarakhs Prison.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"771\" data-end=\"997\">\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>19 February 2026News category: Execution Breathing in Confinement &ndash; The death sentence of at least one prisoner, who had been arrested and sentenced to death on charges of &ldquo;murder,&rdquo; was carried out in Sarakhs Prison. 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