Iran carried out its first public execution in more than two years on Saturday, according to a human rights group. “The resumption of this brutal punishment in public is intended to scare and intimidate people into not protesting,” said Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) NGO, chief executive Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam.
He condemned public executions as “medieval” and called on the international community to act decisively against the death penalty. The public execution of a man convicted of killing a police officer was carried out in southern Iran’s city of Shiraz, according to IHR. The death sentence was recently upheld by the Supreme Court.
Images circulating online, allegedly of the execution, showed a man in prison clothing hanging several feet from the ground by a rope attached to a crane.
Rare Executions in Public in Iran
Death sentences in Iran are usually carried out in prisons. Activists say public executions serve as a deterrent, especially when those accused are accused of murdering a member of the security forces.
According to Iran Human Rights, the last time a convict was publicly executed in Iran was in June 2020. Four other men sentenced to death for killing police officers are currently suffering the same fate. According to the NGO, the number of executions in Iran doubled in the first half of 2022 compared to the same period last year.
Source: Krone
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