/ IHRightsHabib Rakhsmah Notizehi, a 52-year-old Baluch father of five, was executed in Gorgan Central Prison on 14 October 2026, Iran Human Rights reports. From a village near Gorgan, he had been arrested around six years earlier and sentenced to death on drug-related charges by the https://t.co/Ur75qANUgz22 Oct

Three men were hanged in Ahwaz today May 4

4 May 08

Iran Human Rights, May 4: Three men were hanged today in the prison of Ahwaz, capital of the southern province of Khuzestan, reported the state run daily newspaper Quds. They were convicted of rape and keeping arms according to the report.

The official Iranian news agency IRNA reported on April 30 that three men identified as ABdolreza K., Abbas H and Naser Z., between age of 18 and 30, were sentenced to death and their sentences were sent to the section for implementation of the verdict. It is not clear whether these three are the same men who were hanged today.

The three men executed today were arrested in december 2007. One of them could have been a minor at the time of committing the alleged crime. Iran Human Rights is investigating the case.