In the early morning of Sunday, June 7, 2024, the death sentence of a Kurdish prisoner named Mojtaba Karami, a 28-year-old resident of Harsin city in Kermanshah province, was carried out in Shiraz Central Prison (Adelabad). This prisoner had been sentenced to death on charges related to “drug offenses“.
According to the reports received by the Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM) organization, Mojtaba Karami had been arrested four years ago on charges of drug possession and was sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary.
As of now, the execution of this prisoner has not been announced by any of the government-controlled media or official sources within Iran, and the execution has taken place in silence without media coverage.
In 2023, the number of executions of ordinary prisoners reached 830 individuals. Among them, the execution of prisoners involved in drug-related crimes has increased several-fold compared to the previous year. Prisoners associated with drug offenses are often from the slums near cities and are considered to be from impoverished segments of society. They are sentenced to death through an unfair judicial process. While crimes related to drugs should never be subject to the death penalty according to international laws
