Eight People Executed in Single Day at Iran’s Vakilabad Prison

The total number of executions carried out at Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad on Saturday has risen to eight with the identification of two brothers from Torbat-e Jam who were put to death on drug-related charges.

According to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Ebrahim Khalili-Far, 40, and Gholamhossein Khalili-Far, 35, from Cheshmeh-Gol village in Razavi Khorasan Province, were executed at dawn on Saturday.

The brothers had been arrested three years ago in a joint case and were later sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary.

These executions add to the six previously reported deaths at the same facility on the same day.