Iran Supreme Court upholds 4 death sentences in $2.6 billion fraud case

By Associated Press, Published: February 18, 2013

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s state prosecutor says the country’s Supreme Court has upheld death sentences against four people linked to a $2.6 billion bank fraud described as the biggest financial swindle in Iran’s history.

Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehei says the four were convicted of being “corrupt on earth” for “disrupting” the country’s economy. He says the court has ordered the verdict to be carried out but no date has been set.

Ejehei is quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying that two banking officials have been sentenced to life in prison while 19 others, almost all of them senior government officials, were given prison terms ranging from 2 to 20 years.
Their trial last year raised questions about corruption at senior levels in Iran’s tightly controlled economy.

Iranian regime executes man in Qazvin Prison

Human Rights Activists in Iran


A prisoner was hanged on September 3 in the Qazvin Prison yard.


According to reports, Ehsan Shabani son of Kamel from the Eslanik Village in Salmas was hanged in Qazvin Prison.

Notably, his body was handed over to his family on September 4. Officials had charged him with drug offenses.

Student prisoner-Behnam Ganji- commits suicide after release because of prison torture

Daneshju News, Jaras website



Behnam Ganji, a 22 year old student of Tehran University who was recently released from Evin Prison ended his own life in the middle of the night on September 1.


According to reports, Behnam Ganji was a friend of [political prisoner] Kohyar Goudarzi who was arrested on July 31 along with Kohyar and another one of his friends in his home in Tehran by plainclothes agents. Behnam Ganji and his other friend were released on August 8 but Kohyar Goudarzi is still jailed…

Ganji did not have a history of political activities but was transferred to cellblock 340 in Evin Prison where he was subjected to severe mental pressure by interrogators to confess to lies; pressures that led to depression and in the end, suicide. Behnam ended his life on Thursday night by taking pills.