Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); October 1, 2024: Abbas Karimi has been transferred to the pre-execution solitary confinement cells of Isfahan Central Prison after failing to raise the €1.06 million blood money demanded by the victim’s family.
According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, Abbas Karimi who was previously given two weeks to raise €1.06 million blood money, was transferred to solitary confinement on 1st October in preparation for his scheduled execution on 3rd October.
An informed source previously told IHRNGO: “Abbas Karimi was transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for his execution on 19 May this year but the victim’s family gave him an extension to come up with their requested 70 billion toman diya (€1,060,000). Unfortunately, they’ve chosen this very high amount as diya and the Karimi family were unable to come up with that amount.”
Those charged with the umbrella term of “intentional murder” are sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) regardless of intent or circumstances due to a lack of grading in law.
Once a defendant has been convicted, the victim’s family are required to choose between death as retribution, diya (blood money) or forgiveness.
Crucially, while an indicative amount is set by the Judiciary every year (currently 1.2 billion tomans, approx. €17,000), there is no legal limit to how much can be demanded by families of the victims.
IHRNGO has recorded many cases where defendants are executed because they cannot afford to pay the blood money. The last recorded case was Hossein Habibi who was executed in Urmia Central Prison on 31 January 2024 because he could not afford the 5 billion tomans diya demanded by the victim’s next of kin.
Source:
Iran Human Rights, Staff, October 1, 2024
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