IRAN - Abolfazl Bigzadeh and Rouhollah Sabzi were executed in Qom Central Prison on August 4

Abolfazl Bigzadeh and Rouhollah Sabzi were executed in Qom Central Prison on August 4, 2020. Iran Human Rights published the news on Aug. 11, and established the identities of the men as Abolfazl Bigzadeh, around 25 years old, and Rouhollah Sabzi, around 30 years old. An informed source told IHR: "These two prisoners were arrested in February/March 2009 on charges of carrying more than 100 kg of narcotics in the form of methamphetamine and heroin and were sentenced to death and had been in prison ever since." The source added: "The drugs were found hidden under the back seat of the car, which they said they had no idea about and that someone else had stashed the drugs and it didn’t belong to them. But the court did not accept their statements and both were sentenced to death.”

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