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"All but a handful of countries forbid such executions. Iran should as well." [12] In Tehran, Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi decried the imposition of the death penalty on minors but did not comment on the nature of the charges in this case. [13] The first reports in the Iranian media had all identified the hangings as the result of a rape ...
Public execution of serial killer Esmail Jafarzadeh. Following the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the establishment of the Islamic Republic, public executions became commonplace. The overwhelming majority of public executions were carried out by hanging. Often cranes mounted on trucks served as makeshift gallows. The condemned, and in some ...
Atena Aslani was a 7-year-old Iranian girl from Parsabad who was killed by Esmail Jafarzadeh on June 28, 2017. The Attorney General of Parsabad said: "Atena went away from her father's dyeing shop to a nearby shop. The shopkeeper was a 42-year-old man who had known Atena and her father for a long time."
Iran executed a second prisoner Monday who was convicted of crimes committed during the nationwide protests challenging the country's theocracy, publicly hanging him from a construction crane as a ...
Iran typically carries out executions by hanging inside prisons, often for the crime of drug smuggling, Iran Human Rights says. The country executed 500 convicts in 2022, the group says.
While Karami awaited execution, jailers also allegedly subjected him to rape threats and sexual assault. [10] The day before Karami's execution, Iranian authorities arrested Mehdi Beik, the political editor of Etemad, who had conducted interviews with the family members of condemned Iranian protesters, including Karami's father. [2]
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Iran. [2] The list of crimes punishable by death includes murder; rape; child molestation; homosexuality; drug trafficking; armed robbery; kidnapping; terrorism; burglary; incest; fornication; adultery; sodomy; sexual misconduct; prostitution; [3] [4] plotting to overthrow the Islamic government; political dissidence; sabotage; arson; rebellion ...
Chaab was executed by hanging in Iran, on 6 May 2023, after being accused of masterminding a 2018 attack on a military parade that killed 25 people. He was 49. [11] The European Union afterwards strongly verbally condemned the execution and reiterated its strong opposition to the application of the death penalty in all circumstances.