IRAN: PRISONER HANGED IN PUBLIC

November 13, 2017:

According to the human rights news agency, HRANA, on the morning a prisoner was hanged in public in Babol (a city in Mazandaran Province). The prisoner, identified as Abbas B., 28, was sentenced to death on the charge of murdering a young man during a street fight.
The report mentions that efforts were made to win the consent of the plaintiffs until the last minute, but it was unsuccessful and the execution was carried out.
According to Iran Human Rights annual report on the death penalty 33 people have been executed in public in front of large crowds including children in 2016. Public executions have been strongly criticized by Iranian human rights activists and sociologists.