Iran Executions: Prisoner Hanged at Miandoab Prison

According to a close source, on the morning of Monday, September 10, a prisoner named Kamal Ahmadnejad was executed at Miandoab Prison. He was charged with “cooperating and being a member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan” and “murdering Hashem Zeynali, a former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps”. It is not clear if his execution was carried out for murder charges or rebellion.

A close source told IHR, “They tortured him for six months and forced a confession out of him.” He added, “Kamal wasn’t even allowed to meet his family for the last time.”

Ahmadnejad was arrested by the guards of the Ministry of Intelligence in Miandoab on December 24, 2014, and was sentenced to death through an unfair trial.

According to a report by the Center for Democracy and Human Rights of Kurdistan, Ahmadnejad was arrested along with five other people named Halmat Abdollahi, Milad Abdi, Saeed Siahi, Soleyman Kari, and Mostafa Tehzadeh. Ahmadnejad was sentenced to death and the five other defendants were each sentenced to 15 years on September 18, 2016.

The execution of this prisoner has not been announced by the state-run media so far.

It should be noted that on the morning of Saturday, September 8, three Kurdish political prisoners named “Ramin Hossein Panahi, Zanyar Moradi, and Loqman Moradi” were executed at Rajai Shahr Prison.