Execution of 10 Prisoners Including One Woman by the Islamic Republic in Several Cities of Iran

Human rights sources reported on Tuesday, December 5, that at least 10 prisoners, including one woman, were executed in various cities of Iran by the judicial authorities of the Islamic Republic. The executions by the judiciary of the Islamic Republic in Iran continue. According to the Iran Human Rights Activists' Organization, three prisoners named Ashkan Moradi, Jalal Haj-Babaei, and Davood Heydari, who had previously been sentenced to death for drug-related charges, were executed early on Tuesday, December 5, at the central prison of Karaj by the judicial authorities of the Islamic Republic. Additionally, human rights sources reported on Tuesday, December 5, that two prisoners were executed in Jiroft, one in Kermanshah, three in Karaj, one in Khorramabad, and three in Hamadan. According to a report by the Iran Human Rights Organization on Tuesday, two prisoners identified as Nader Ghanizadeh, accused of "premeditated murder," and 62-year-old Nasser Salmani related to drug charges were executed in Jiroft prison. The Baloch Activists Campaign has also reported that currently, 58 prisoners related to these two charges in this prison in Kerman province are at risk of execution. According to the Iran Human Rights Organization, three prisoners, two of whom are identified as Meysam Noori, 42, and Araslan Habibi, were executed in connection with drug charges at the central prison of Hamadan. The execution of these three prisoners occurred on Thursday, and their cases were separate. This human rights organization also reported the execution of a prisoner named Mostafa Soori from Kangavar in Kermanshah central prison on charges of "premeditated murder" in recent days. Furthermore, the Iran Human Rights Activists' Organization reported that on Sunday, December 4, the judicial authorities of the Islamic Republic executed a female prisoner charged with "murder" at the Parsilon prison in Khorramabad. According to reports from HRANA, the identity of this executed prisoner was announced as Fariba Maleki. According to previous reports from the Iran Human Rights Activists' Organization, in the month of Aban alone, at least 133 executions were recorded, including one public execution, 24 convictions, and seven confirmations of death sentences. In recent days, Raha Bahreini, a researcher on Iran at Amnesty International, emphasized that the Islamic Republic uses the death penalty to instill fear in society, stating to VOA: "The situation of executions in Iran has always been horrific, and since the rise of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, we have entered a darker period."