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IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Yazd at an unspecified date
August 19, 2024: August 21, 2024 - IRAN. Unidentified man executed in Yazd at an unspecified date
State media reported the execution of an unnamed man for rape and sexual assault charges at an unspecified prison in Yazd.
According to the judiciary’s Mizan news agency and quoting Hossein Tahmasebi, the Yazd province head of judiciary, a man was executed at an unspecified prison at an unspecified date.
The man was arrested for rape and sexual assault charges around five years ago and sentenced to death.
Hossein Tahmasebi said: “The individual raped multiple girls and women after luring them as a fortune teller who claimed to be a person who writes prayers.”
According to the 2023 Annual Report on the Death Penalty, at least 20 people were executed for rape charges in 2022 compared to 23 in 2022 and 10 in 2021.
Iran Human Rights itself had reported the execution of an unidentified man on August 19 in Yazd Prison, adding only that he was an ethnic Baluch and that his crime had not been identified. This may or may not be the execution it reports on today.
https://iranhr.net/en/articles/6874/ (Source: IHR)
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