IRAN - Abed Khodaverdi and Arshad Jodat executed in Zanjan Prison on September 21
For drugs
Abed Khodaverdi and Arshad Jodat executed in Zanjan Central Prison on September 21.
According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed on drug-related charges in Zanjan Central Prison on September 21. Their identities have been established as 40-year-old Abed Khodaverdi and Urmia-native, Arshad Jodat.
An informed source told IHR: “Abed Khodaverdi was around 40 years old and was detained and sentenced to death on drug-related charges around four years ago. Arshad Jodat had also been behind bars for drug-related charges for around four years.”
At the time of writing, neither of their executions have been reported by media in Iran.
Another NGO, KHRN (see HoC 21/09/2021), reports, on the same date and in the same prison, and always for drug offenses, the execution of a Kurd named Arshad Javdat Rabat (Javdatian), a native of Orumiyeh. Orumiyeh is another way of transliterating Urmia. When translating news from the Farsi language, which has a different alphabet from the Latin one, it sometimes happens that the sources arrive at significantly different results: Arshad Jodat and Arshad Javdat Rabat (Javdatian) could be the same person.
- (Source: IHR)
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