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IRAN - Moein Salahvarzi executed in Ilam on March 11
March 11, 2024: March 11, 2024 - IRAN. Moein Salahvarzi executed in Ilam on March 11
After 32 years on death row
According to information obtained by IHR, a man was executed in Ilam Central Prison on 11 March. His identity has been established as 63-year-old Moein Salahvarzi who had spent 32 years on death row for murder.
His son previously told IHR: “I was two years old when it happened. My dad was working on the farm that day, he’d worked hard on that land for a year. My paternal uncle had told my dad that he had to give that year’s harvest of wheat and straw to him. My dad refused to be extorted and didn’t give in. My uncle came and used vulgar language against my mother in front of the village and my father shot him with a hunting rifle. He didn’t mean to kill his brother, he wanted to shoot at his leg but my uncle came forward. My uncle passed away on the way to the city hospital.”
After following up on his case, Moein Salahvarzi’s family were told by judiciary officials that his case had been lost. “We’ve followed up on his case so many times. In Tehran, they told us that his case had been lost at the Supreme Court. Nobody will respond to us,” his son told IHR in November 2019 when Moein had been on death row for 28 years.
At the time of writing, his execution has not been reported by domestic media inside Iran.
https://iranhr.net/en/articles/6609/ (Source: IHR)
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