Execution of two Kurdish prisoners in Iran

Two Kurdish prisoners were executed in Urmia and Birjand prisons. On the morning of Thursday, July 25, Kamran Sheikha, a Kurdish prisoner of conscience, was executed in Urmia Central Prison after 14 years of imprisonment. Earlier, he was sentenced to death in a joint case along with 6 other Kurdish prisoners of conscience, namely Qasim Abste, Ayub Karimi, Dawood Abdullahi, Farhad Salimi, Anwar Khezri and Khosrow Basharat, on the charge of "corruption in the land". In the past few months, all six of his casemates were executed in Qezal Hesar prison in Karaj. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network, on Wednesday, July 24, this prisoner of conscience was suddenly transferred from Mahabad Prison to the solitary cell of Urmia Central Prison, and his death sentence was executed on Thursday morning.

Also, on the morning of Saturday, July 23, the death sentence of Vahid Vahdani, a native of Bojnord, North Khorasan province, who was previously sentenced to death on charges related to "narcotics", was executed in Birjand Central Prison. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network, this 30-year-old prisoner from Bojnord was arrested and sentenced to death several years ago on charges related to "narcotics". The death sentence of this prisoner was executed in the morning of Tuesday, July 23 along with 6 other prisoners in Birjand Central Prison. According to the report of Iran Human Rights Organization, 285 people have been executed in Iran since the beginning of this year.