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IRAN - Mehdi Ghanbari executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on July 10
July 10, 2021: Mehdi Ghanbari executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on July 10. Several other prisoners were also transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions.
According to Rokna, a young man named Mehdi who had been sentenced to qisas for murder was executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on the morning of July 10.
Iran Human Rights has established his identity as Mehdi Ghanbari and according to informed sources, it is possible that the number of executions were higher.
In the past few days, more than five prisoners from different wards have been transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions. They will be executed in the coming days should their victims’ families not forgive or accept blood money instead of retribution.
At the time of writing, only one of the prisoners has been identified as Heydar from Ward 7 of Rajai Shahr Prison, who is on death row for murder.
According to the tally kept by HoC, this would be the 160th execution in Iran since the beginning of the year.
https://iranhr.net/en/articles/4805/ (Source: IHR)
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