According to received reports, in the early hours of Saturday, July 12, 2025, a 20-year-old prisoner named Eliya Khalifehzadeh, from Saqqez, was publicly executed in front of Bukan Prison.
Sources informed Hana that Khalifehzadeh had been arrested in January 2025 and was later sentenced to death in public by the Islamic Republic’s judiciary on charges of “rape and sexual assault” resulting in the murder of Niyan Chalabiyan, a six-year-old girl from Bukan.
The sentence was carried out this morning after being upheld by the Supreme Court. It is worth noting that Niyan Chalabiyan died on January 16, 2025, following the assault.