Islamic Republic Executes Seven Afghans In Five Months, Says Rights Group
Iran Human Rights (IRH) announced that Islamic Republic has executed Najaf Suleiman Reshad, an Afghan prisoner accused of "deliberate murder", in Khorram Abad. Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights too said that Iran has executed at least seven Afghans in the past five months.
Iranian officials have not yet given details about the execution of Afghan citizens in the country.
IRH said in a report that Suleiman Reshad, along with three other prisoners, had been sentenced to "retribution" and their sentences were executed on Thursday.
The human rights group added that the Afghan citizen spent four years in the prison of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
However, Hengaw rights group has not given any details about the identity of the seven Afghan citizens who have been executed in Iran in the last five months.
The Islamic Republic has recently started a wave of execution of prisoners across Iran.
The country's judiciary announced on Friday that Majid Kazemi, Saeed Yaghoubi and Saleh Mirhashemi, three protesters imprisoned in what Persian media have dubbed the ‘Esfahan (Isfahan) House’ case, have been executed.
Earlier, Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights also reported that the Islamic Republic executed at least 14 prisoners in various Iranian prisons on Thursday.
