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Prisoner Executed in Northwestern Iran

20 Apr 18
Prisoner Executed in Northwestern Iran

Iran Human Rights (Apr 20, 2018): A prisoner was hanged at Zanjan Central Prison on murder charges.
 

According to a close source, a prisoner who was sentenced to death on murder charges was executed on the morning of Sunday, April 15.
The prisoner was identified as Sabah Amani from Naqadeh. In 2011, he was arrested on the charge of murdering a taxi driver in Zanjan and had been in prison ever since. 
A close source told IHR, “Sabah Amani worked at a gas station in Zanjan. He had sold 230 kilograms wheat to a taxi driver named Taher H., whom he knew for a long time, but Taher couldn’t pay his money and Sabah murdered him.”
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, 240 of the 517 execution sentences in 2017 were implemented due to murder charges. 
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.