Iran Human Rights (IHR); December 7, 2019: Iran’s Supreme Court upholds an inferior court’s death sentence for a 39-year-old man for insulting Muhammad, the prophet of Islam in a social media platform.
According to Rokna, a website close to the Iranian regime, Meysam, 39, had published “thousands of insulting contents in groups and channels on Telegram application.”
Telegram communication app, which provides groups chats and channels, is widely used among Iranians.
According to the website, Meysam is sentenced to death for insulting the prophet of Islam, and flogging and imprisonment for drinking alcohol, keeping weapons and pepper spray and propaganda against the Islamic Republic.
According to Article 262 of Iranian Islamic Penal Code, insulting Prophets is punishable by death sentence.
Man Hanged in Zahedan City
Iran Human Rights (IHR); December 7, 2019: A prisoner was hanged at the central prison of the Iranian southeastern city of Zahedan Wednesday.
According to HRANA, prisoner Elias Notizehi, 27, was hanged on Wednesday, December 4, at Zahedan Central Prison, Sistan and Baluchistan province.
He was sentenced to death for murder around three years ago.
Out of the 110 people who were executed in the first half of 2019, 83 were sentenced to qisas (retribution in-kind) for murder.
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.
Source: Iran Human Rights, Staff, December 7, 2019
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