Iran: At least 10 Prisoners Transferred to Solitary Confinement for Execution
Iran Human Rights (Oct 24 2017): At least 10 prisoners of Rajai Shahr Prison were transferred to solitary confinement yesterday. Most of the prisoners were sentenced to death on murder charges and all of them are scheduled to be executed on Wednesday October 25..
According to a close source, at least 10 prisoners from different wards were transferred to solitary confinement on October 23. These prisoners are sentenced to qisas (retribution death penalty) for murder charges, and if the plaintiffs don’t give consent or accept to postpone the execution, the prisoners will be executed on the morning of Wednesday.
According to Iran Human Rights (IHR) sources, the identities of some of the prisoners are: Iman Rasekhi, Mojtaba Ghiyasvand, and Majid Nazifi from ward 1, Mahmood Khayyeri, Hamidreza Shojaiy, and Ne’mat Segundaz from ward 6.
Mojtaba Ghiyasvand had previously been transferred to solitary confinement twice, but each time he asked for time and was returned to his cell. Earlier, a close source told IHR, “Mojtaba has been sentenced to death on the charge of murdering someone in a tribal dispute. Although he insisted on his innocence at all stages of the proceedings, he was sentenced to death anyway.”
According to IHR 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.
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