A prisoner accused of premeditated murder Executed in Zanjan Central Prison

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Human Rights in Iran – Tuesday, June 30, 2020 / The death sentence of a prisoner accused of premeditated murder, whose sentence had previously been upheld by a court and the Supreme Court, was carried out in Zanjan Central Prison.

According to Human Rights in Iran quoting Iran Human Rights (IHR), on Monday morning, June 20, 2020, Yousef Rahmani, about 40 years old, a resident of Qazvin (northwestern Iran), jailed in Qazvin Central Prison, was executed on charges of premeditated murder. His death sentence was upheld earlier by a court and the Supreme Court.

Explaining the news, a well-informed source said: “Yousef Rahmani’s sentence was supposed to be carried out before Ramadan (the Islamic month of fasting), and then they said that it would be carried out after Ramadan. In 2017, Yousef was arrested on charges ofmurdering his friend and sentenced to retaliation (Qisas). Yousef and his friend had an argument over 9 million Tomans of money.”

According to the annual report by Amnesty International in 2019, the Iranian government executed at least 251 people. At least 4 of those executed were under the age of 18 at the time of crime. However due to the lack of transparency of the authorities, it is difficult to find out the actual number of executions in this country and it may be much higher than the announced figures.

Considering the International Instrument of Human Rights and also the Article 5 in Universal Declaration of Human Rights, no one should be treated in a manner that causes their degradation and humiliation.

On February 18, 2020, Amnesty International released a report describing human rights abuses in Iran, in which issued a report on the issuance and enforcement of death sentences: International human rights law allows acts involving same-sex sexual intercourse with reciprocal consent and extramarital sex; muharebeh (enmity against God), spreading corruption on earth, insulting Mohammed the prophet and fighting against Islamic State are crime titles punishment of which is execution and hanging while there is no vague definition for them, yet.