K. N. was hanged in Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj on 27 January 2011 for trafficking 49 kilos and 70 grams of hashish. He was one of seven people hanged there that morning, the rest for crack or heroin offences, while three more people were hanged for drugs in Oroumieh the same day.
K. N. was hanged in Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj, west of Tehran, early on 27 January 2011 for trafficking49 kilos and 70 grams of hashish.[1]The Abdorrahman Boroumand Center memorial records his hanging in Karaj on that date on drug-trafficking charges.[2]
He was one of seven people hanged in Ghezel Hesar that morning; the other six were convicted over crack or heroin, including one man who trafficked 61.3 kilos of crack.[1]Three more people were hanged for drug trafficking in Oroumieh prison in northwestern Iran the same day, none of them identified in the reporting.[1]Iranian agency reporting counted at least 81 executions across Iran since the start of January 2011.[1]
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Iran Human Rightsiranhr.netArchived copyTen executions in Iran today: Seven people were hanged in Karaj (west of Tehran) and three people in Oroumieh northwet of Iran
Iran executed six convicted drug traffickers whose charges included cannabis alongside methamphetamine and heroin, state media reported on 2 January 2024. Three other traffickers were hanged separately in Ardabil Province for heroin and opium.
Iran executed a trafficker nicknamed the "Crocodile of the Persian Gulf" and a second man at Bandar Abbas central prison, state media said. Officials said the network had smuggled more than 400 tonnes of drugs, mostly opium, and laundered 20 trillion rials through property.
A 45-year-old man known only as B. Kh. was hanged at Shiraz central prison on 1 October 2013 after a Revolutionary Court branch condemned him for buying, possessing and transporting 294 kg of hashish alongside 1.5 kg of crack. The court had also imposed life imprisonment, a 360-million-rial fine and 50 lashes before the execution was carried out.
Manuchehr Najafi was hanged in Tehran's Evin prison on 12 January 2011 for buying and selling 9 kilos of hashish. He was one of eight men executed that morning, seven of them for drug trafficking.
