Shoresh Sattarzadeh, a prisoner from Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, has been executed in Sanandaj Central Prison after spending about 18 years on death row.
Sattarzadeh had been sentenced to qisas, or retribution in kind, on charges of “premeditated murder”.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the execution was carried out at dawn on 1 July, in Sanandaj Central Prison.
Sattarzadeh was arrested in 2008 on charges of “premeditated murder” and later sentenced to death.