Iran Human Rights (IHR); August 27, 2019: According to the Iranian media, Hamidreza Derakhshandeh was hanged in public this morning.
He was sentenced to death for the assassination of an Iranian cleric three months ago.
According to the state-run news website
Iran Online, Hamidreza Derakhshandeh, the man who assassinated the Imam of Friday Prayer in the Iranian city of Kazeroun, was hanged in public on Wednesday, August 28.
Hamidreza Derakhshandeh was sentenced to death for the assassination of the cleric who represented the Iranian Supreme Leader in Kazeroun.
The assassination took place on May 29, 2019.
In a recorded
audio message published on social media, Hamid tells his motive for killing the cleric was the corruption of authorities which has led people to starvation.
His death sentence had been issued and upheld by the Iranian Supreme Court in just three months, and it is unknown that he had a fair trial or not.
UN human rights experts have on several occasions condemned the Iranian authorities’ practice of public executions, calling it a practice which has “a dehumanising effect on both the victim and those who witness the execution”.
The pictures of the public execution can be seen
here: WARNING: Graphic Content
, Staff, August 28, 2019
Iran: Hamid-Reza Derakhshandeh Hanged in Public in Kazerun
Iran's regime on Wednesday publicly hanged a man for killing a notorious Friday prayers' leader of the city of Kazerun, southern Iran.
Hamid-Reza Derakhshandeh, who stabbed to death mullah Mohammad Khorsand on May 29, 2019, was hanged in public on August 28, 2019 at the site of the murder.
Friday Prayer leaders are mullahs who represent the Iranian regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei in different cities, which makes them hated among the Iranian population who are fed up with the repression and corruption of regime officials.
Derakhshandeh, 47, had previously said he had punished the Friday prayers' leader for stealing from poor people.
In comments following the killing of the regime’s Friday Prayer leader in Kazerun, Derakhshandeh said: “Dear people of Iran, I love all of you, I love the poor people of Iran, those who don’t have bread to eat at night, those who have become sick of having to borrow money to make ends meet…”
“I had heard and seen cases of injustice. Hundreds of these cases. There’s only so much I can do to buy and give to the poor. I saw these crimes. I’m not a criminal. This was my first time. My friends know me. I’m not a criminal.”
Derakhshandeh had no previous criminal record.
He was tried on July 3 by the regime's court in Shiraz, capital of Fars Province.
The so-called judge handed down his death sentence minutes after the first court session.
Last year, popular protests by thousands of residents shook Kazerun. They were enraged by the regime’s policies aimed at changing the municipal divisions of the city, which would pave the way for more embezzlement by regime officials and result in lower services to the city’s inhabitants.
Rampant corruption and embezzlement by Iran's clerical regime and lack of justice have frustrated ordinary Iranians who are suffering under the poverty line.
Popular protests across Iran regularly target regime officials, including Friday Prayer leaders, for their role in government corruption.
In 2007, Majid Kavousifar was also hanged in public for avenging a notorious judge in Tehran.
Moment before his death, Kavousifar boldly waved to the crowds, smiled and said: “I will die a man.”
Source:
NCRI, Staff, August 28, 2019
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