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NCRI Human Rights Center Weekly Bulletin
November 19, 2018
Systematic
violations of the right to life
Executions,
arbitrary killings, deaths in custody, and death sentences
Execution
Iraqi Citizen
Executed in Iran
November 12,
2018: An Iraqi citizen was hanged at Zanjan Central Prison on a murder charge.
According to
the IHR sources, Soran Rashid Zahedi (Nickname: Soran Holiri), 33, was executed
on the morning of November 6, 2018.
The Iraqi
national was a resident of Iran for almost three decades. The source who
doesn't want to be named, told IHR, “Four years ago, Soran was working in a cement
factory in Zanjan city where he killed a person over there. The victim owed
Soran Three million and a half Tomans. On the day of the incident, the victim
received Seven million Tomans loan but refused to pay his debt to Soran. They
fought and the person was killed.”
Soran’s family
could not obtain a consent from the victims' families to stop his death
sentences. The Penal Code of Iran does not specifically state that convicted
murderers are subject to the death penalty, but rather to “qisas” which means
“retribution in kind” or retaliation. In this way, the State effectively puts
the responsibility for executions for murder on the shoulders of the victim’s
family.
The Iranian
media outlets have not published news related to the aforementioned execution so
far. (Iran Human Rights – Nov. 12, 2018)
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