Human Rights in Iran - Today,
Wednesday, April 24, 2020, the death sentences of at least seven prisoners
accused of murder in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj were carried out. The men
had been transferred to solitary confinement in the past few days to serve
their death sentences.
Mohsen Rezaian, Alireza Ariaei, Hamidreza
Asgharpour Masouleh, Mostafa Ghiyasvand, Mehdi Asemi, and Anna Dordi Babaei and
another prisoner with an unknown identity, according to the report of Human
Rights in Iran, this morning, Wednesday, April 24, 2020, were executed on the
charge of committing murder. The death sentences were confirmed by the
Supreme Court. Among those executed, Mohsen Rezaian had already lost an
arm and a leg.
Among those executed was Anna Dordi Babaei, who
served 28 years in prison from 1992 until the execution date. An informed source also said: “Mohsen Rezaian
had lost one arm and one leg before being arrested due to an electric
shock.”
The source added: “Hamid Reza Asgharpour
Masouleh was sentenced to death by swearing-in. He was charged with the
murder of his wife, although murdering at first is in doubt itself. Iran
Legal Medicine had at first commented on the natural death of his wife and said
that the bruises on the body of the deceased were due to an attempt to
resuscitate the emergency team. But later they changed their
minds. The court also sentenced him to death by swearing-in.”
In the early hours of Sunday morning, April 21,
2020, Mostafa Ghiasvand, Mohsen Rezaian, Alireza Ariaei, Hamidreza Asgharpour
Masouleh, Behrouz Hajizadeh, and the prisoners accused of murder were
transferred to solitary confinement to serve their sentences in Rajai Shahr
Prison in Karaj. Along with these people, 5 other prisoners with unknown
identities were transferred to solitary confinement.
On December 15, 2019, Human Rights in Iran
released a report on the transfer of 32-year-old Mohsen Rezaeian, accused of
murder, from solitary confinement in prison ward 1 of hall 2 to solitary
confinement for execution. This prisoner has been in prison since 2016,
and once, after being transferred to solitary confinement, he managed to get
some time in order to obtain the consent of the victim's guardian from the
authorities.
according to Amnesty International's annual
report, in 2019, the Iranian government executed at least 251 people, and at
least four of those executed were under the age of 18 at the time of committing
the 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 figure.
According to international human rights
instruments, as well as article 5 of the UDHR, no
one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family,
home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and
reputation.
According to statistics released by human
rights organizations, Iran is one of the countries with the highest number of
executions per capita and after China the highest number of executions are in
Iran.
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;
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.”
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