02 February 2023 :
January 31, 2023 - Already 18 Kurds executed since the beginning of the year.
18 Kurdish prisoners were executed in the prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran in January 2023.
Based on the statistics registered in the Statistics and Documents Center of the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, at least 18 Kurdish prisoners were executed during January this year, which is equivalent to one-third of the total execution of Kurdish citizens in 2022. Hengaw previously stated in a report that at least 52 Kurdish citizens were executed in 2022.
In January, 60 prisoners were executed in Iranian prisons, 18 of whom, or 30% of all citizens executed in Iran, were Kurdish prisoners.
It should be mentioned that 12 cases of Kurdish citizens who were executed were executed in prisons outside Kurdistan, including Karaj, Arak, and Bandar Abbas.
Referring to the statistics of the Hengaw Organization, the execution of a Kurdish prisoner has been published in official sources, and the executions of 17 other prisoners have not been announced in governmental and judicial sources.
