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IRAN - Amir Mahdi executed in public on May 25
May 25, 2023: (May 25, 2023) - Amir Mahdi executed in public on May 25
According to the IHRS, on Thursday, May 25, 2023, a prisoner was hanged in public in the city of Maragheh, East Azerbaijan province. The name of this prisoner was Amir Mahdi.
According to Fars news agency, Mahmoud Nemati, the public prosecutor and Maragheh revolution, announced the execution of this prisoner named Amir Mahdi in an interview with this news agency.
He accused this prisoner of efsad-fil-arz (corruption on earth) through “widespread corruption and prostitution.”
Amir Mahdi has been imprisoned in Maragheh prison since 2016 and was sentenced to death for this charge. According to other sources (Hrana), the inmate, identified by his first name as Amir-Mehdi, was convicted of rape six years ago.
Public execution is one of the methods of increasing the atmosphere of terror in the society and further repression, and this trick of the system is condemned.
https://en.iranhrs.org/maragheh-the-brutal-execution-of-a-prisoner-in-public/
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2023/05/the-death-sentence-of-a-prisoner-was-executed-in-public-in-maragheh
https://iranhr.net/en/articles/5943/
https://www.en-hrana.org/six-inmates-executed-across-different-prisons-in-iran/ (Source: IHRS)
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