Iran: List of the executed or sentenced to death from December 05 through January 06

A compilation of recent reports:

NOTE: Iran’s Islamic Penal Code is very specific about the manner of execution and types of stones which should be used for stoning sentences. Article 102 states that men will be buried up to their waists and women up to their breasts for the purpose of execution by stoning. Article 104 states, with reference to the penalty for adultery, that the stones used should “not be large enough to kill the person by one or two strikes, nor should they be so small that they could not be defined as stones.” READ MORE

1- Jan. 31 – Iranian authorities hanged in public an individual accused of being a “trouble-maker” in the central city of Kerman. The unnamed individual who was hanged in a one of the city’s public squares was charged with being involved in armed clashes with the security forces, creating “insecurity and trouble”, and kidnapping. (ISNA)

2- Jan. 08 – Three men were hanged in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison.
The three prisoners, identified only by their first names Amir-Reza, Gholam-Ali, and Majid, were accused of murder. (daily Khorrasan)

3- Dec. 29 – Iranian authorities hanged two young men in public in the cities of Ilam, western Iran, and Taibad, eastern Iran, the official news agency reported.
Yar-Mohammad Samadi, 20, was hanged in a public square on Wednesday after being convicted of committing murder in 2003. A second man, Eskandar Morajei, 30, was hanged in public at dawn on Thursday in the city of Ilam. He was also accused of murder. (Iran Focus)

4- Dec. 28 – Two men, identified only by their first names as Naeem-Abdollah and Jaleel, were hanged in public in the volatile city of Ahwaz, southwest Iran, the official state news agency reported on Wednesday.
They were accused of being “mohareb”, or waging war on God.
In the past, Iran’s judiciary has executed political opponents of the Islamic Republic on the charge of being a mohareb.

5- Dec. 27 – Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld stoning and amputation sentences for four men and jail terms for several dozen other members of a gang in the north of the country, according to a report in a semi-official daily.
The men, who had been arrested in January in the town of Nowshahr in the northern province of Mazandaran, were all part of a gang called the “Wild West" Three of the men – Eskandar M. (also known as Abbasi), Jamshid E., and his unnamed brother – were each given two death by hanging sentences and one death by stoning sentence. Another man, identified only as Afshin R., was sentenced to have his fingers amputated and receive prison time.

The report quoted the top religious judge from the town of Sari, Hojjatoleslam Moussavi, as saying that the State Supreme Court had upheld all the sentences and that they were all “definite”.
The men were accused of armed robbery and murder among other charges. Earlier this month, an Islamic court in Tehran sentenced a woman to stoning for adultery in the town of Varamin. (daily Jomhouri Islami)

6- Dec. 25 – Iran has executed a political prisoner who had been jailed since 1996 for allegedly killing an agent of the notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security. The man known as Aziz was a Kurdish activist being held in Orumieh Prison. Aziz was originally from a village called Biouran in the western province of Kurdistan. He was hanged inside the prison on 18 December. (Iran Focus)

7- Dec. 21 – Iranian authorities publicly hanged three men all in their twenties in the town of Sabzevar, north-east Iran. Two of the men, whose identities were not made clear, were aged 25 while the third man was 21 years old. They were hanged in public Tuesday morning, accused of various crimes including injuring an agent of the State Security Forces, Iran’s para-military police. (Fars News)

8- Dec. 19 – Authorities hanged a young man, only identified by his first name Mohsen, in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. He was accused of killing his employer in April 2003. (Iran Daily)

9- Dec. 18 – Authorities hanged Ali Babai-Pour in the Iranian capital Tehran Sunday morning. The unidentified man was accused of killing his brother after a dispute. The man reportedly said that he had no intention of killing his brother. (ISNA)

10- Dec. 15 - The State Supreme Court in the central Iranian city of Isfahan upheld a death sentence for a young man and ordered two other men to be lashed in public, a state-run daily reported on Thursday. The man sentenced to be hanged was only identified by his first name Habib and was accused of rape. Ali-Reza and Saeed, allegedly two of his accomplices, were each sentenced to 99 lashes. (Hamshahri)

11- Dec. 13 – Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld sentences for two young men to be hanged in the Iranian capital Tehran, a state-owned daily reported on Tuesday. The two, who were only identified by their first names Hossein and Shir-Agha, were 27 and 23 years old respectively. They were accused of separate instances of murder. (Iran Focus)

12- Dec. 10 - Rostam Tajik, 20 years old, was hanged in a public park in the central Iranian city of Isfahan. The sentence was carried out in the presence of judicial officials. Tajik was sentenced to death for the murder of a woman on May 13, 2001, when he was just 16 years old.(Kayhan)

13- Dec. 10 - Gholam S, 24 years old, was executed “a few days ago” inside Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison in front of prison and judicial officials. He was accused of stabbing a friend to death in April 2003 after a dispute over money.( ISNA)

14- Dec. 10 - Akram N. was hanged in prison in the north-eastern town of Shirvan. She was accused of stabbing to another woman to death in 2001. (ISNA)

15- Dec. 7 - Abdolreza Akbari-Diba, 28 years old, and Farhad Akbari-Diba, 22 years old, were executed in a road leading to Arak in front of a large crowd. The two men, who were from the western town of Hamedan, were charged with a variety of crimes including murder. (ISNA)