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Iran Human Rights – A prisoner was executed at Babol Prison on murder charges.
According to Rokna news agency, on the morning of Saturday, May 5, a prisoner was hanged at Babol Prison on murder charges.
The prisoner, identified as A. F., 27, committed murder over a financial dispute in 2015.
According to the state-run news agency, Javan, quoting Younes Hosseini Alemi, the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Mazandaran, “The defendant, A.F., son of Shidollah, who was sentenced to death on the charge of murdering J. A., was hanged at Babol Prison in the presence of the plaintiffs.”
According to Iran Human Rights annual report on the death penalty, 240 of the 517 execution sentences in 2017 were implemented due to murder charges. There is a lack of a classification of murder by degree in Iran which results in issuing a death sentence for any kind of murder regardless of intensity and intent.
