Prisoner Hanged on Murder Charges

16 Oct 17

murder, Executions, Rasht Central Prison

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.

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.

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