Iran Human Rights (IHR); March 6, 2019: Man hanged for murder charges at the Iranian city of Zanjan’s central prison last Sunday.
On the morning of Sunday, March 3, a prisoner was hanged for murder charges at Zanjan prison. The man has been identified by IHR sources as Nouroddin Salami, from the Iranian city of Ghorveh.
Nouroddin Salami spent four years and seven months in prison before his execution.
The aforementioned executions are not announced by Iranian authorities or media so far.
There is a lack of a classification of murder by degree in Iran which results in issuing a death sentence for any kind of murder regardless of intensity and intent.
According to the Iran Human Rights statistic department, at least 273 people were executed in Iran in 2018. At least 188 of them executed for murder charges.