Iran Human Rights (Oct 15 2017): A prisoner was executed on murder charges at Rasht Central Prison (Lakan).
According to a close source, on the morning of Saturday October 14, a prisoner was executed at Rasht Central Prison.
The prisoner, Hamidreza Khoshbakht, was sentenced to death on murder charges.
Close sources told Iran Human Rights (IHR) that Hamidreza was born on 1993. Four years ago, when he was 20, he was arrested for murder.
The execution of this prisoner has not been announced by the state-run media so far.
According to Iran Human Rights annual report on the death penalty, 142 of the 530 execution sentences in 2016 were implemented due to murder charges.
There is a lack of a classification of murder by degree in Iran which results in issuing death sentence for any kind of murder regardless of intensity and intent.
Prisoner executed on Moharebeh charges at Kerman Prison
According to ISNA and the Deputy of Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s office of Kerman, Mokhtar Shamsuddini, on the morning of Thursday October 12, a prisoner was hanged at Kerman Prison.
The prisoner identified as P.D. was charged with Moharebeh for blocking the road, kidnapping some Afghans, and extorting them.
At least 530 prisoners were executed Last year, 44 of whom were sentenced to death on the charge of Moharebeh and “Spreading corruption on earth”.
Due to the ambiguity of the notions of Moharebeh (waging war against God) and “Spreading corruption on earth”, these two charges are commonly used for a large number of offences.
Source: Iran Human Rights, October 16, 2017
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