K.M.M.K:
According to the Kurdistan Human Rights News Center (KMMK), the death sentences of two Kurdish prisoners were carried out in Iran last week. On Sunday, September 21, and Wednesday, September 24, 2025, the executions took place in Khorramabad Prison and Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj. Both men had been convicted on drug-related charges.
The prisoners were identified as:
• Kazem Jamshidi, 29, from Khorramabad, who had been in detention for the past four years before being sentenced to death on drug charges.
• Meysam Karami, approximately 35, an ethnic Lur, who was arrested six years ago for allegedly transporting 15 kilograms of narcotics and later sentenced to death.
The executions were carried out in secrecy, without any prior public notice or official confirmation from Iranian state media at the time the news was released.
Such practices — executions conducted with minimal transparency and no public disclosure — have long been a major source of criticism from human rights organizations.
International reports indicate that Iran has already carried out more than 1,000 executions in 2025, a figure described as unprecedented in modern times. This number surpasses total executions in previous years and is seen by many as evidence of the Iranian government’s increasing reliance on capital punishment as a tool of repression.
In 2024, Iran recorded at least 972 executions, accounting for about 64% of all documented executions worldwide. A large proportion of these were linked to drug-related offenses, often tried in courts accused of failing to meet fair trial standards.
The high number of executions, the targeting of individuals accused of non-violent crimes, and the lack of transparency in trial and implementation processes have repeatedly prompted international human rights bodies to warn about Iran’s practices, describing them as examples of “secret executions” and “systematic killings in prisons.”
The KMMK strongly condemned the executions, citing Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which affirms that “everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.” The organization denounced these executions as a blatant violation of fundamental human rights and called for an immediate end to the death penalty against Kurds and other minorities, particularly in the absence of an independent judicial system.
R.M
