Iran: Man Hanged at Shiraz Prison

According to Iran Human Rights (IHR) sources, death-row prisoner Mohammad Haghighatnejad (39) was hanged on April 23, 2020, at Shiraz prison.

“Mohammad was a welder. Five years ago, amid a fight over financial matters, he pushed a man and he fell down. The man’s head hit a hard object and died,” a well-informed source told IHR. 

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.