Ali Khaleqi Farghani, a 22-year-old prisoner convicted of premeditated murder, was executed on his birthday in Mashhad Central Prison on Thursday, December 5, 2024.
According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization, he had been arrested two years ago on charges of premeditated murder and was subsequently sentenced to two counts of the death penalty.
A source close to Mr. Khaleqi Farghani’s family told Hengaw: “On September 29, 2022, at least 12 people attacked Ali and his friend during a street altercation. In the course of the fight, two individuals were killed, and Ali, who had sustained a neck injury near his jugular vein, fell into a coma. After two months, he was transferred directly from the hospital to prison, where he was tortured into confessing to the two murders during the altercation. The judiciary subsequently sentenced him to death.”
The source further stated: “After Ali regained full health, he maintained that he had not committed the murders. Despite reviewing CCTV footage, the victims’ families insisted on his guilt. His execution was carried out on his birthday.”
The Center for Human Rights in Iran has repeatedly called for an immediate halt to all executions in Iran and the quashing of existing death sentences as these executions frequently involve severe due process violations.
Source:
iranhumanrights.org, Staff, December 9, 2024
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"One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed,
but by the punishments that the good have inflicted."
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