/ IHRightsYadollah Shamsi, 30, was executed in Rafsanjan Prison on 17 August 2026. According to Iran Human Rights, he was from Rafsanjan, had been arrested four years earlier and was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. His execution remained unreported by Iranian https://t.co/9TrWjpN5x527 Oct
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