Iran Executions: Prisoner Hanged in Sary

According to a close source, on the morning of Wednesday, June 27, a prisoner was hanged at Sary Central Prison. The prisoner, charged with murder, was identified as Mehdi Alami, 33 from Sari.

A close source told IHR, “Mehdi used to work at a rehab camp. He beat one of the addicts in the rehab which left him in a coma and he passed away two weeks later. The victim’s family didn’t give their consent during the time Mehdi was in prison.”

 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.