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Mohammad Mehdi Karami (Persian: محمدمهدی کرمی; c. 1 November 2001 – 7 January 2023) was a 21-year-old Iranian-Kurdish man [1] [2] who was executed by the Islamic Republic of Iran for his involvement in the Mahsa Amini protests.
In August 2013, a 12-year-old Iranian boy from the province of Kermanshah accidentally hanged himself while re-enacting a hanging with his younger eight-year-old brother. According to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the boy was "an unexpected victim of a culture of public executions that remains pervasive in the Islamic republic." Whenever ...
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 ...
It was the first public hanging of the year in Iran, according to the Oslo-based Iran Human Rights, which tracks executions in the countr Iran publicly hangs a man convicted of murder Skip to main ...
Following the execution of Mohsen Shekari on 8 December, Amnesty International reported that a senior Iranian police commander had signed a document requesting the public execution of one prisoner connected with the protests "in the shortest time possible," specifically requesting that the execution be public "as a heart-warming gesture towards ...
Majid Kavousifar (Persian: مجید کاووسیفر) was an Iranian man who, along with his nephew Hossein Kavousifar, was convicted of the murder of Judge Masoud Ahmadi Moghaddasi. [1] Majid and Hossein Kavousifar were both publicly executed by hanging in Tehran in August 2007.
Mohsen Chavoshi, one of Iran's most famous singers, has helped rescue more than 50 people from the gallows in a country where justice can be harsh. He had two days to live before his execution in ...
The grave of Mohsen Shekhari. On 25 September 2022, Shekari attended a protest against the death of Mahsa Amini in Tehran, Iran's capital city.During the protest, Iranian authorities asserted that he blocked or closed off a main road in Tehran, Sattar Khan Street, [3] and used a machete to non-fatally wound a member of the Basij militia, which was sent in to quell the protests.