Iran Executes Afghan Prisoner At Isfahan Central Prison, Says Rights Group
Iran has executed an Afghan national convicted of murder, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights Organisation said Monday.
The group identified the prisoner as Ghorban Zainolnouri, a resident of Isfahan who was arrested at his workplace three years ago and later sentenced to death. According to the organisation, Zainolnouri was hanged alongside an Iranian inmate on Wednesday, 26 June, at Isfahan Central Prison.
In its statement, the rights group noted that Iranian law does not differentiate among categories of intentional homicide, allowing courts to impose the death penalty without considering the circumstances or motive of the crime.
Iranian officials and state media have not confirmed the executions. Human-rights monitors say at least six Afghan prisoners have been put to death in various Iranian prisons over the past week, and more than 80 were executed last year.
