A Prisoner Executed In Birjand Prison

Human Rights In Iran – Thursday, October 26, 2023 – The death sentence of a prisoner accused of drug-related crimes was carried out in Birjand Central Prison.

According to Human Rights in Iran, on Thursday, October 26, 2023, Abdolbasir Mohammadani (Rend), born in 1993, son of Abdollah, married and resident of Zahedan, the capital of Sistan and Baluchestan Province,‌ was executed on drug-related charges in Birjand, capital of South Khorasan Province.

On Wednesday morning, October 25, 2023, Abdulbasir Mohammadani (Rend) was transferred from the general ward of Birjand Central Prison to solitary confinement in order to be executed, according to the report.

He had also made the last visit with his family in the final hours of Wednesday, before the sentence was carried out.

“Mr. Mohammadani (Rend) was arrested in 2019 on charges of possession and transporting of some kind of narcotics in Birjand, and after about two years, he was sentenced to death by a judge of the Revolutionary Court of Birjand.”, a source familiar with the news said.

After the appointment of Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ezhe’ei as the head of the judiciary and his claim to speed up the execution of old cases and as a result the execution of death sentences with the aim of reducing the country’s criminal crimes, this process lead to the protest of Amnesty International by publishing a report on 27th June, 2022, explaining the situation of the implementation of death sentences in the first 6 months of 2022 in Iran.

Also, on August 23, 2022, Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights, protested the increasing trend of issuing and carrying out death sentences in Iran in his periodic report on human rights violations in Iran.

Due to the lack of transparency of the Iranian authorities, it is difficult to find out the actual number of executions in this country, and the number is certainly much higher than the announced figure.

Issuing and executing death sentences violates international human rights documents, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

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