Iran Human Rights (IHR); March 5, 2020: At least one death-row prisoner was hanged on Sunday, March 1, at Urmia prison, West Azerbaijan province.
According to IHR sources, death-row prisoner Amir Mohammadpour was hanged on Sunday, March 1, 2020, at Urmia Central Prison (also known as Darya prison). He was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder charges.
HRANA, which first published the news, mentioned that the young man was a resident of Urmia city.’
In 2019, most of the executions in Iran were carried out for murder charges.
According to the Iranian Islamic Penal Code (IPC) murder is punishable by qisas which means “retribution in kind” or retaliation.