Iran carries out first public execution in two years, NGO says

Iran on Saturday carried out its first public execution in over two years, an NGO stated, denouncing the apply as “medieval” as concern grows over rising repression within the Islamic republic.

Iman Sabzikar, who had been convicted over the homicide of a police officer in February 2022 within the southern metropolis of Shiraz, was hanged within the early morning on the scene of the crime, Norway-based Iran Human Rights stated.

It stated that Iranian state media had reported on the general public execution happening and that the convict had been recognized as Sabzikar, whose sentence of being hanged in public had been confirmed by the supreme court docket earlier this month.

“The resumption of this brutal punishment in public is meant to scare and intimidate individuals from protesting,” stated IHR’s director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam.

“We will elevate the price of finishing up such medieval practices by individuals protesting extra towards the demise penalty — notably public executions — and the worldwide group taking a powerful stance,” he added.

Photos circulating on social media claiming to be of the execution confirmed a person wearing Iran’s commonplace gentle blue and black striped jail garments hanging a number of meters above the bottom on a rope connected to a crane on a truck.

Executions in Iran normally happen inside the partitions of jail and activists say public executions are used as a deterrent, particularly when the crime considerations the killing of a member of the safety forces.

IHR stated that the final recorded public execution was carried out on June 11, 2020. It added that 4 different males who had been all additionally sentenced to demise for the homicide of cops in separate however related instances are presently vulnerable to the identical destiny.

In latest weeks, activists have expressed concern over a rising crackdown in Iran because the nation sees uncommon protests within the face of an financial disaster.

Outstanding movie administrators and different intellectuals have been arrested whereas IHR has stated that the variety of executions in 2022 doubled within the first half of the yr in contrast with 2021.

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