06 March 2020 :

Amir Mohammadpour (Mahmoud Pour) was hanged on Sunday, March 1, at Urmia prison for a murder committed at 17. According to IHR sources, death-row prisoner Amir Mohammadpour was hanged on Sunday, March 1, 2020, at Urmia Central Prison (also known as Darya prison). He was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder charges. HRANA, which first published the news, mentioned that the young man was a resident of Urmia city. According to Hengaw, which published the news on March 6, the young man was 24, and a minor at the time of the crime. A source close to Mahmoud Pour family confirmed the news and said that Amir had been arrested by Bukan security forces in 2014 in charge of murder his father and his mother in law, and sentenced to death by Iranian judicial system. He had been detained for last 6 years in youth sector of Urumiyeh prison.