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Iran Executions: Prisoner Hanged at Rajai Shahr Prison

10 May 18
Iran Executions: Prisoner Hanged at Rajai Shahr Prison

Iran Human Rights (May 9, 2018): At least one prisoner was executed at Rajai Shahr Prison on murder charges.

According to a close source, on the morning of Wednesday, May 9, a prisoner was executed at Rajai Shahr Prison. The prisoner, charged with murder, was identified as Reza Hamidi.

The prisoner was transferred to the solitary confinement from ward 10 of Rajai Shahr Prison on Monday, May 7.

A close source told Iran Human Rights, “Reza was sentenced to death on the charge of murdering his mother-in-law and he failed to gain the consent of the plaintiffs.”

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.