Iran 2023
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on Iran in 2023
MAY 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Grave of Zhina Mahsa Amini vandalised in Saqqez
MAY 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A prisoner named Milad Bahmanzadeh died of heart attack before his execution
MAY 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj on May 20
Saeed Garavand, Samad Garavand, and Shahab Mansourinesb Garavand
MAY 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asif Shahbakhsh executed in Zahedan on May 20
295 executions since the beginning of the year
MAY 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shaban Yousefi executed in Gohardasht on May 20
MAY 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahrooz Sokhanvari executed in Gohardasht on May 20
MAY 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 more execution in Ghezel-Hesar on May 20
Shahram Sharqi
MAY 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on May 19
Yaghoub Hassani, Mazhar Davari, Ali Mehrdel, Kazem Ghofrankhah
MAY 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi and Saeed Yaghoubi executed in Isfahan on 19 May
Accused of a 'political' crime
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mustafa Salehi executed in Sanandaj on May 18
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jamshid Kaimi executed in Sanandaj on May 18
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Kerman on May 18
Hossein Poursheikh, Omid Jan Abadi, Nabiollah Zaboli + Unk
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Cousins Mostafa and Farhad Vafayi executed in Rasht on May 18
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Khorramabad on May 18
Ali Khoramshah Amrayi, Najaf Soleiman Reshad, Firouz Yarinejad + Unk
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Rigi executed in Jiroft on May 18
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - An man Afghan executed in Gohardasht on 18 May
Identified as Saeed, or Masoud
MAY 17, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Borzu Chaqazardi and Saeed Najafi executed in Kermanshah on May 17
MAY 16, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sha’aban Yousefi executed in Gorgan on May 16
- MAY 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 unidentified men executed in Qezel Hesar on May 10
MAY 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Bandarabbas and Minab prisons on May 15
Abdolrahman Mousazehi, Jalal Rigi + 3 unk.
- MAY 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 1 man executed in Fereydun Kenar on May 15
Identified only as M. A.
MAY 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Padayar and Peyman Akbari Birgani executed in Khorramabad on May 15
MAY 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Arjumandi and Kayumars Menbari executed in Sanandaj on May 14
MAY 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in Kerman on May 13
Amrollah Adish, Kambiz Davarpanah and four unidentified men
MAY 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran is entitled to chair an event of the United Nation's Human Rights Council
The Iranian government tries to demean the opposition
- MAY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Rigi executed in Mashhad on May 12
MAY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 foreign citizens released from Iranian prisons
Benjamin Briere and Bernard Phelan
- MAY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Shabanzadeh executed in Rasht on May 11
MAY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Appointment of Iran to chair the UN Human Rights Council’s 2023 Social Forum
MAY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIran - Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentences of Three Protesters
Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi and Saeed Yaghoubi