Iran 2021
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News on Iran in 2021
AUGUST 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Hassani-Kiazehi executed in Isfahan Prison on August 8
On drug-related charges
AUGUST 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Hassani-Kiazehi and Seyed Esmail Kurdtamini hanged in Isfahan Prison on August 8
On drug related charges
AUGUST 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Salim Mohammadi executed in Isfahan prison on August 8
No information about his charges
AUGUST 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Golebacheh executed in Birjand Prison on August 8
On drug charges
AUGUST 4, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farzad Afsordeh executed at Jiroft Prison on August 4
For murder
AUGUST 4, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mojtaba Tondroo (Tondro) executed at Karaj Central Prison on August 4
For murder
AUGUST 4, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Hassan Eghdami and Ebrahim Afrashteh executed in Qom Prison on August 4
For drugs
AUGUST 2, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eskandar Zare, Sepehr Abbasnejad and Hamzeh Rezaei executed in Urmia on August 2
For drug-related charges
AUGUST 2, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arsalan Karimi executed in Isfahan Prison on August 2
For drugs
AUGUST 2, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajad (Sajjad) Sanjari, a minor, executed in Dizelabad prison on August 2
He was 15 years old at the time of the crime
AUGUST 1, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan ... and Ali ... executed in Mashhad Prison on August 1
For murder
JULY 31, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four unidentified men executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on July 31
For murder
- JULY 30, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Massoud Esfandiari executed on June 30 in Kermanshah Prison
For murder
JULY 28, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Esmail Fatehi, Mansour Mohammadi and Mozafar ... executed in Qazvin Prison on July 28
For drug-related charges
- JULY 28, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Vahid Raisi executed at Jiroft Prison on July 28
For murder
- JULY 27, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohandes ... executed on July 27 at Karaj Prison
For murder
- JULY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ebrahim Shehbakhsh executed in Isfahan Prison on July 25
For drug-related crimes
JULY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bakhtiar Salemi executed in Shirvan Prison on July 25
For murder
JULY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Cousins Amir and Sohrab Heydari executed in Yazd Prison on July 25
For drug-related crimes
- JULY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed on July 25 at Isfahan Prison
Crime not known
- JULY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Akbar Abedanpour executed on July 25 at Isfahan Prison
For drug related crimes
JULY 20, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Police use extreme force to quell Khuzestan water shortage protests
JULY 20, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Abdollahzadeh executed in Shiraz Prison on July 20
For murder
- JULY 19, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Sadeghi executed in Isfahan Prison on July 19
For drug-related charges
- JULY 18, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Babak Aslani and Mohsen Asl-Hosseini executed in Urmia Prison on July 18
For murder
JULY 18, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Mohammadi executed in Zanjan Prison on July 18
At least 174 executions since the beginning of the year in Iran
- JULY 18, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan Central Prison on July 18
Ali Bandeh Parvizi, Javad Karimian, Nasir Ahmad Baluch and Mehrdad Golshani
JULY 18, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahbaz Jadidi executed in Yasuj Prison on July 18
For murder
- JULY 17, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in a Tehran prison on July 17
For murder
JULY 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Afshin Gheidar executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on July 14
161st execution in Iran since the beginning of the year