ESFAHAN, — Three prisoners who were sentenced to death for allegation of drug-dealing were executed in Esfahan prison on 22nd April, HRA news agency reported.
The prisoners were hanged in the early morning in the yard of Esfahan prison.
It is reported that the other 12 prisoners sentenced to death had been transferred to solitary containment in order to carry out their execution.
Each year many people are executed or given long sentences on various grounds such as drug dealing. Many political activists are also executed under the charge of drug-dealing.
Including this case more than 95 people have been executed since the beginning of the 2012.