Islamic Republic Executes Afghan Prisoner, Says Human Rights Organisation

The Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights reported on Wednesday that the Islamic Republic executed five prisoners, including an Afghan, on drug-related charges.

The organisation said that the death sentences of these defendants were carried out in
Ghezel Hesar prisons in Karaj and the central prison of Karaj.

The rights group has written that it does not have information about the identity of the Afghan prisoner executed in Karaj. The organisation added that the Islamic Republic's judiciary had sentenced the prisoners to death on charges of "corruption on earth, drug-related crimes, and supplying and distributing poisonous alcoholic beverages”.

Iran Human Rights had also reported on Tuesday, October 22, that five prisoners, including two Afghan citizens, had been executed in Qom Central Prison. The human rights organisation had said that they were executed for murder.

Iran Human Rights wrote on Tuesday that the death sentence of an Afghan named Abdul Qadir was carried out on October 10, and another Afghan, whose identity is unknown, was executed by the Islamic Republic on October 16.

Despite international requests to stop the execution of the death sentence, the Islamic Republic has continued to execute prisoners throughout the country.