IRAN: AT LEAST NINE PRISONERS EXECUTED IN RASHT AND ZAHEDAN, INCLUDING A JUVENILE OFFENDER HANGED ALONG WITH HIS MOTHER

August 7, 2014: at least nine prisoners were hanged in two Iranian cities.
Four prisoners were hanged in the prison of Rasht, reported the official website of the Iranian Judiciary. Three of them were convicted of drug-related charges. They were identified as R. A., 44, M. A., 45, and A. G., 40. The fourth prisoner was identified as K. S. and was convicted of murder.
On the same day, an Iranian juvenile offender was hanged in a prison of Zahedan along with his mother and three other prisoners, reported Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran (HRDAI). Twenty-year-old Osman Dahmardeh was 17 when he was arrested together with his mother about 2 years ago. The other three executed were identified as Rasoulbakhsh Delshadi, 28, Ali Basham Narouee, 32, and Kamran Bameri, 35. The charges for which these prisoners were sentenced to death are unknown. All five were part of a group of six prisoners who were transferred to solitary confinement in the quarantine section of the main prison in Zahedan the day before. The sixth prisoner, Hossein Mishkar, whose execution was scheduled for the same day, was spared at the last moment, after the executioners put the noose around his neck, said the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
Other human rights groups reported about the execution of five more prisoners in other prisons of the Baluchistan Province. Two of them were hanged in the prison of Saravan and the others in the prison of Chah Bahar. None of the Baluchistan executions were announced by Iranian official sources. (Sources: Iran Human Rights and NCRI, 08/08/2014)