Thursday, April 7, 2011
(HRNA News): On the morning of Thursday, April 7, 2011, three prisoners were ordered to be hanged in the yard of Urumiyeh’s Central Prison.
Masoud Shamsnejad, a lawyer for one of the executed inmates, confirmed this news in an interview with the Movakarian News Agency saying, “Towhid Masoumi Dijin, Khalid Esmaili, and Masoud Qavipanjeh are the people whom judicial authorities have ordered to be executed today.”
He added, “It is said that these executed individuals were accused of drug-related crimes.”
It is worthy to mention that on the afternoon of the day before, judicial authorities in Urumiyeh ordered four people condemned to death to be quarantined in this prison.