IRAN - Jafar Mansour-Beigi executed at Adelabad Prison on February 23
February 23, 2021: Jafar Mansour-Beigi executed at Adelabad Prison on February 23. According to Iran Human Rights, a male prisoner was executed at Adelabad Prison in Shiraz on February 23. The prisoner, identified as Shiraz native, Jafar Mansour-Beigi, was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. An informed told IHR: “Jafar had been behind bars for four years and in that time, had not been able to obtain his victim’s family’s consent, he was executed on Tuesday morning at Adelabad Prison in Shiraz.” Jafar Mansour-Beigi was transferred to the gallows with two other prisoners identified as Ali Sayati and Habib Sayati, who are related and sentenced to qisas as part of the same case. They were returned to their cells after obtaining a 60-day extension from their victim’s family.
https://iranhr.net/en/articles/4645/ (Source: IHR)
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