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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 ...
On July 19, 2005, the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) posted an article in Persian describing the execution of the two youths. Its headline stated that they had been executed for "lavat beh onf", which means "sodomy/homosexual sex by force" and is a legal term used for rape of men by men.
Reyhaneh Jabbari (Persian: ریحانه جباری; c. 1988 – 25 October 2014) was a woman convicted of murdering Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former agent of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence [1] [2] [3] in Iran. [4] She was in prison from 2007 until her execution by hanging in October 2014 for killing her alleged rapist. [5]
"It is high time Iran stemmed this ever-swelling tide of executions." In total, at least 901 people were executed by hanging last year in the Islamic Republic, compared with 853 in 2023, the U.N ...
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 ...
After her appeal to Iran's Supreme Court was turned down, Iran executed Bahrami by hanging on 29 January 2011 (at 5am) in the execution chamber at Evin Prison. She became the 66th person to receive capital punishment in Iran in 2011. Her lawyer said she was shocked that the death sentence on the drugs charges had been carried out before an ...
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 ...
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. [1]