16 June 2026<\/b><\/p>\n
News Group: Executions<\/b><\/p>\n
Breathing in Confinement:<\/b> The death sentence of at least one prisoner, who had previously been arrested on charges related to drug offences and sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary, has been carried out in Ghezel Hesar Prison.<\/p>\n
According to reporters from Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran, a prisoner was hanged in the early hours of Monday, 8 June, in Ghezel Hesar Prison. The prisoner\u2019s identity has been confirmed by Breathing in Confinement as Namdar Bagheri<\/b>.<\/p>\n
According to the report, Namdar Bagheri,<\/strong> a resident of the village of Ali Baqar Galianeh in Firuzabad County, Kermanshah Province, had been arrested 12 years ago on charges related to drug offences and was subsequently sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out in the early hours of Monday, 8 June 2026, in Ghezel Hesar Prison.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n No official announcement<\/strong> Annual report on executions in Iran<\/strong> 16 June 2026 News Group: Executions Breathing in Confinement: The death sentence of at least one prisoner, who had previously been arrested on charges related to drug offences and sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary, has been carried out in Ghezel Hesar Prison. According to reporters from Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7833,"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-7832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-executions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Namdar.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yHPi-22k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832","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=7832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7834,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832\/revisions\/7834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAt the time of publication, no official sources had announced the execution of this prisoner.<\/p>\n
\nAccording to the annual report of the Statistical Centre of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran, between March 2025 and March 2026, at least 2,616 individuals were executed in Iran. Of these, 12 executions were carried out in public. The executed individuals included 67 women and 8 juvenile offenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"