IRAN - Still on the 4 executions carried out in Urmia on 29 October.

IRAN - Urmia Central Prison

03 November 2020 :

Still on the 4 executions carried out in Urmia on 29 October. The news was reported by IHR on October 29, the next day by KHRN, and on November 1 by Hengaw. Date, prison, number of hanged persons and charges (murder) are the same, but not all names match. According to IHR, they were executed: Mousa Rahmani, Morteza Heidari, Yassin PourMohammadi and a man identified only as Iraj (or Zeinal). A fifth man allegedly committed suicide immediately before the execution: Ali Maleki. According to KHRN to be hanged were: Yasser Cheshmeh Anvar, Ali Malekzadeh, Zinolabedin Hosseinzadeh and Musa Rahmani. KHRN also refers to a suicide attempt, but it is unclear whether successful or just attempted. The suicide would be Ali Malekzadeh, whose name is also among those executed. Hengaw instead indicates as executed: Yaser Pour Mohammadi, Ali Maleki, Mousa Na'mani, and Zeinal Abedin Mohammadi. Hengaw also points to Ali Maleki (whose name is also among those of the executed) as a suicide by cutting his veins. It often happens that the various sources, translating the news from Persian to English, transliterate proper names with slight differences. In this case, however, the three different sources differ more than is usually the case.