Branch Four of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Shiraz condemned B. Kh., 45, after his arrest on the Shiraz-Sepidan road with 294 kilograms of hashish and one and a half kilograms of extracted heroin known as crack.[1][2][3] Alongside the death sentence, the court imposed life imprisonment, a 360-million-rial fine and 50 lashes, and the ruling was carried out at the central prison on the morning of 1 October 2013 after his plea for forgiveness was rejected.[1][2][3]
Man hanged in Shiraz over 294 kg of hashish
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.
🇮🇷 Central prison, Shiraz, Fars Province · Iran
- Fine
- IRR 360,000,000
- Deaths
- 1
- Cannabis
- Hashish
- Case stage
- Executed
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Fine
- IRR 360,000,000
- Deaths
- 1
- Agency type
- Court
- Cannabis
- Hashish (294 kg)
- Activity
- Trafficking
- Charge
- buying, possession and trafficking of 294 kilograms of cannabis
- Case stage
- Executed
Sources
- Iran Human Rightsiranhr.netArchived copyOne Woman and Five Men Executed in Iran
- Human Rights Activists News Agencyen-hrana.orgArchived copyA prisoner has been hanged in Shiraz
- Abdorrahman Boroumand Centeriranrights.orgArchived copyFlogging Before Execution, B. Kh., Shiraz, Fars Province Judiciary, 10/01/2013
Open questions the AI reported
- HRANA dates the hanging to Tuesday October 3rd while Fars and IranHR report it on the morning of October 1st, and this report uses October 1st.
- Only the initials B. Kh. were published, so the full identity of the condemned man is not recorded here.
- The same IranHR roundup reports hangings in Ardebil and Mashhad around the same dates, and those separate cases are left out here.
- No photograph of the prisoner or the execution with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources.