IRAN: FIVE HANGED ON DRUG CHARGES

April 9, 2016: Five prisoners were reportedly hanged at Rasht's Lakan Prison (in the province of Gilan, northern Iran) on drug charges.
The prisoners had reportedly been transferred out of their wards on April 7 and taken to solitary confinement cells in preparation for their executions.
According to close sources, Rashid Kouhi, Seyed Javad Mirzadeh and Hossein Farhadi are the names of 3 of the prisoners. 
Iran Human Rights is in the process of investigating the identities of the 2 other prisoners. 
All 5 prisoners were reportedly on death row for drug related offenses.
According to Amnesty International, 36-year-old Rashid Kouhi was arrested in September 2011 and sentenced to death by the revolutionary court in Rudbar (a county in Gilan) for possession and trafficking 800 grams of methamphetamine. 
Close sources say prison authorities contacted Kouhi's family on April 7 and instructed them to come in for their last visit with him on April 8 before his scheduled execution the next day. (Source: Iran Human Rights, 10/04/2016)