Two Public Executions and One Public Amputation in Iran

According to the Iranian media two prisoners were hanged in public in two different Iranian cities on Sunday August 24.  A young man identified as "Soheil" was hanged publicly in the the town of Sari (Northern Iran), reported "Rooz-e-No" news site. Soheil was charged with the murder of his brother, wife and cousin, said the report. Another man who was not identified by name was hanged publicly in the town of Borazjan (Southern Iran) on Sunday. According to Jam-e-Jam daily news the man was convicted of abducting and murdering two women. Since the first week of August at least 60 people have been executed in Iran. 15 of these executions have been carried out in the public. Iran Human Rights (IHR) strongly condemned the public amputation and executions by the Iranian authorities. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the spokesperson of IHR said: " Public amputation and executions are methods that the Iranian authorities use to spread fear in the society. These are the same methods as the group "ISIS" is using in Iraq and Syria. The difference is that Iran is a full member of the UN and has ratified many of UN's Conventions. We urge the international community to strongly condemn the Iranian authorities' use of barbaric punishments".