On Sunday, September 1, 2024, Iranian authorities executed four prisoners across various facilities, continuing the country’s heavy use of capital punishment. These executions occurred in the prisons of Nishapur, Shiraz, Hamedan, and Kahnuj.
A prisoner named Ahmad Nazeri, 30, was executed in Nishapur Prison early Sunday morning. Nazeri, who had been working as a delivery driver before his arrest, was sentenced to death after being convicted of murder three years ago. His execution marks another in a series of capital punishments carried out in Iranian prisons.
In Shiraz Central Prison, two inmates, Ali Danesh, 35, and Akbar Zandi, 40, were hanged at dawn on the same day. Both men had been convicted of murder and sentenced to death following their arrests several years earlier. Akbar Zandi, a father of two, had been awaiting execution for several years before his sentence was carried out.
On the morning of September 1, 2024, Saber Jamali, a 29-year-old man from Kangavar, Kermanshah province, was executed in Hamedan Central Prison. Like the others, Jamali had been convicted of murder and was sentenced to death following his arrest. His execution adds to the growing list of death penalties carried out in Iran in recent years.
On the same day, Parviz Mirbalochzehi, 46, was executed in Kahnuj Prison. He had been arrested three years earlier for drug-related offenses and subsequently sentenced to death. Mirbalochzehi, originally from Zahedan, was among many Iranians sentenced to death under the country’s strict drug trafficking laws.
Four days earlier, on August 28, 2024, four prisoners were executed in Isfahan Prison. Among them were Asad Khosravi, 43, from Khomeini Shahr, Isfahan, who had been arrested three years earlier on drug-related charges, and Rafi’ Abdulbari, 30, an Afghan national, sentenced to death for murder despite claiming he was only trying to mediate a group conflict. Additionally, Milad Alimohammadi, 34, a married father of one from Chadegan, and Emad Motavalian, 25, were executed after being arrested five years earlier on drug-related charges.
