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IRAN - Public hanging of two unnamed men
September 30, 2024: September 30, 2024 - IRAN. State media have reported the publicly hanging of two unnamed men in Khomein for armed robbery.
According to the Judiciary’s Mizan new agency, two men were publicly hanged in Khomein in Markazi province on 30 September. The unnamed men were sentenced to death for charges of moharebeh (enmity against god) and efsad-fil-arz (corruption on earth) for armed robbery by the Revolutionary Court.
Ebrahim Gamizi, the Khomein prosecutor said the two men were arrested for an armed robbery on 15 December 2020 when they clashed and killed a policeman while escaping. They were subsequently arrested and sentenced to public execution.
This is the second and third public execution recorded in Iran in 2024. The first took place on 26th August in Shahroud. 2021 was the first year in over a decade during which no public executions were carried out by the Islamic Republic. This followed 2020 when only one execution was recorded, which was the lowest number since 2008, when Iran Human Rights started its systematic monitoring of executions in Iran. There is no indication that the decline in the number of public executions were the result of policy change, but rather a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. In 2022, public executions returned to the streets of Iran with two people publicly executed. That number rose to seven in 2024.
Iran Human Rights condemns the return of public hangings to Iranian streets and urges the international community to deal seriously with this type of execution in Iran. The first 2024 public execution took place on 26 August.
IHR DIrector, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam previously said: “Public hanging is an inhumane, cruel and degrading act that not only victimises the defendant but also the general public. The international community must condemn this barbaric punishment in the strongest terms. We will witness more public executions if the international community doesn’t show an appropriate response.”
https://iranhr.net/en/articles/6953/ (Source: IHR)
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