19 January 2017 :

five people were executed in two different cities on drug related charges. A 36-year-old prisoner, identified as Ramezan Yousef Heydari, was hanged at Bandar Abbas Central Prison, reported Iran Human Rights. He was arrested in 2011 for possessing and trafficking 900 grams of crystal meth and two kilograms and 200 grams of crack. On the same day, four prisoners were executed at Mashhad's Vakilabad Prison. One of them was identified by the HRANA as Ahmad Shekarabi, sentenced to death for possessing and trafficking five kilograms of heroin. "Ahmad's first death sentence was quashed by the Supreme Court, but he was sentenced to death again by branch 8 of Mashhad's Revolutionary Court, presided by Judge Mazloom," a source close to Shekarabi's family told Iran Human Rights. The source insisted that Shekarabi was innocent.