HRANA News Agency – In the early hours of today, April 9, the death sentence of a prisoner previously convicted of drug-related offenses was carried out in Shahrud Prison.
HRANA has identified the executed prisoner as Gholamreza Pardakhteh. He had been arrested on charges related to drug offenses and later sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court.
As of the time of this report, the execution has not been officially announced by prison authorities or relevant institutions.
In 2024, the Department of Statistics and Publication of Human Rights Activists in Iran documented 812 cases related to the right to life, including the sentencing of 214 individuals to death and the execution of 930 individuals. Among these, 4 executions were carried out in public. Of those executed, 818 were male, 26 were female, and 5 were juvenile offenders—individuals under 18 years old at the time of their alleged crimes.