12 October 2021 :
Iran Human Rights has obtained information on October 8 that Esmail Soltan-Abadi was secretly executed in Kermanshah Central Prison on August 9. He was a Kangavar native and had been sentenced to qisas for murder. Informed sources told IHR: “Esmail Soltan-Abadi was sentenced to qisas based on a qassameh ceremony and had spent 23 years in prison. The victim’s family had vowed to never execute the sentence and had said that they wanted him to rot in prison. He was executed without his family being notified and being able to have a last visit with him.”
Qassameh is based on swearing an oath on the Quran by a certain number of the victim’s family. In murder cases, 50 male members of the victim’s family are required to make a qassameh. It should be noted that the people who swear in qassameh ceremonies are not required and are not usually direct witnesses to the crime.
