Iran Human Rights (Sep 13, 2018): A man who was sentenced to death on the charge of harassing and murdering a 13-year-old teenager was hanged in public in Marvdasht.
According to the state-run news agency, Mizan, on the morning of Thursday, September 13, a prisoner was hanged in public in Marvdasht.
The prisoner was arrested and sentenced to death on the charge of kidnapping, injuring, harassing, and murdering a 13-year-old teenager.
The report states, “The murderer kidnaps and takes the 13-year-old teenager to the mountains and harasses him mentally and physically for 15 days. Afterwards, he throws him down the mountain.”
It should be noted that public executions have repeatedly been criticized by the United Nations. Both the UN Secretary-General and the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran have expressed concern about the continued practice of public executions in Iran.
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Video of the execution (Source:
Iran HRM)
Prisoner Hanged at Miandoab Prison
Iran Human Rights (Sep 10, 2018): Kamal Ahmadnejad, who was charged with “cooperating and being a member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan” and “murdering Hashem Zeynali, a former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ”, was executed at Miandoab Prison.
According to a close source, on the morning of Monday, September 10, a prisoner named Kamal Ahmadnejad was executed at Miandoab Prison. He was charged with “cooperating and being a member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan” and “murdering Hashem Zeynali, a former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps”. It is not clear if his execution was carried out for murder charges or rebellion.
A close source told IHR, “They tortured him for six months and forced a confession out of him.” He added, “Kamal wasn’t even allowed to meet his family for the last time.”
Ahmadnejad was arrested by the guards of the Ministry of Intelligence in Miandoab on December 24, 2014, and was sentenced to death through an unfair trial.
According to a report by the Center for Democracy and Human Rights of Kurdistan, Ahmadnejad was arrested along with five other people named Halmat Abdollahi, Milad Abdi, Saeed Siahi, Soleyman Kari, and Mostafa Tehzadeh. Ahmadnejad was sentenced to death and the five other defendants were each sentenced to 15 years on September 18, 2016.
The execution of this prisoner has not been announced by the state-run media so far.
It should be noted that on the morning of Saturday, September 8, three Kurdish political prisoners named “Ramin Hossein Panahi, Zanyar Moradi, and Loqman Moradi” were executed at Rajai Shahr Prison.
Man Hanged at Saravan Prison
Iran Human Rights (Sep 13, 2018): One prisoner was executed at Saravan Prison on murder charges.
According to a close source, on the morning of Wednesday, September 12, a prisoner who was sentenced to death on murder charges was executed at Saravan Prison.
The prisoner was identified as Nazir Ahmad Gomshadzehi from Saravan.
Habibollah Sarbazi, Baluchi human rights activist, told IHR, “Nazir Ahmad was in prison for three years and five months. His funeral was held yesterday evening.”
According to a report by Baluch Activists Campaign, Nazir Ahmad Gomshadzehi was arrested in 2015.
The execution of this prisoner has not been announced by the state-run media so far.
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.
Iran Executions and the Cycle of Violence: Victim’s Brother Murdered in Retaliation for the Execution of the Murderer
Iran Human Rights (Sep 11, 2018): After the execution of one of his relatives, a 38-year-old man stabbed the victim’s brother to death in retaliation. Many social science experts believe that Qisas leads to an increase in violence in a society.
According to a report by Rokna news agency, Sarallah Hospital reported the murder of a 45-year-old man who was stabbed with a knife and a stick in April. The man, named Qasem, was attacked in front of his house and transferred to the hospital by his family.
The victim’s wife said to the police, “My husband left home to go to work early in the morning. A short while after he left, someone rang the doorbell.”
She continued, “I went out and saw my husband wounded severely. My son and neighbours came to help after they heard my screams. Then we took my husband to the hospital but he passed away. We had no idea who had done that. I suspect the family of the person who murdered my brother-in-law in a street fight ten years ago. The convict’s family tried so hard to gain the consent of the plaintiffs but then he was executed in November last year anyway. Later, the convict’s brother and his friends beat and injured my other brother-in-law. We filed a complaint against them and an arrest warrant was issued for the convict’s brother.”
She added, “They kept harassing us. Even their sister threatened me to death.”
Finally, a 38-year-old man who worked at a bakery told the police, “The convict was one of my relatives. I went to the plaintiffs along with his family several times in order to gain their consent but we failed and he was executed last year.”
He added, “We held a grudge against the victim’s family. When I saw how horrible the convict’s family felt, I decided to take action and punish the victim’s family myself.”
He continued, “I made a plan with my friend and took a stick and knife from his house. We waited outside the man’s house until he came out in his car. We attacked and injured him and then we escaped. The next day I heard that he was dead. We didn’t mean to kill him.”
Apart from discussions about whether the death penalty is right or wrong, it should be considered that according to the laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran, murder is punished by Qisas; that is, the family of the victim decides whether the defendant lives or dies which is nothing more than revenge. One of the reasons civil activists and human rights organizations are against Qisas is that it increases violence in a society. According to the law of Iran, the government devolves the responsibility of execution to the victims’ families.
Source: Iran Human Rights, September 13-14, 2018
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