Eight Prisoners Including Two Afghans Executed in Iran

According to a close source, on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, eight prisoners most of whom were charged with murder were executed at Rajai Shahr Prison.
One of the prisoners were identified as Akbar Eftekhari from ward 6, who had been in prison for 14 years on murder charges. Five other prisoners were transferred to the solitary confinement from different wards of the same prison.
The two other prisoners were Afghans transferred to Rajai Shahr Prison from Ghezel Hesar Prison in order to be executed.
An informed source told IHR, “Unusually strict security measures were taken for these executions to keep them secret.”
According to Iran Human Rights annual report on the death penalty, 240 of the 517 execution sentences in 2017 were implemented due to murder charges. 
There is a lack of a classification of murder by degree in Iran which results in issuing a death sentence for any kind of murder regardless of intensity and intent.