Iran Human Rights, Iran’s human rights agency, on Saturday condemned the public execution of Iman Sabzikar for the murder of a police officer in Shiraz, in the southeast region. This was the first death from the measure in the country since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The entity appealed to the international community “for a strong response against the resumption of public executions”.
“The resumption of this brutal punishment in public is intended to scare and intimidate people into protesting. We can increase the cost of carrying out such medieval practices by people protesting more against the death penalty – particularly public executions – and the international community taking a strong position”, says the institution’s director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam.
According to the IRIB news agency, the 28-year-old man was executed this morning for intentionally killing police officer Ali Akbar Ranjbar on February 2. The sentence had been upheld by Iran’s Supreme Court on July 12.
The last public death in the country was on June 11, 2020. Four other men are currently at risk of being sentenced.
The United Nations (UN) Committee on Human Rights claims that public executions violate article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Iran is a party. “No one will be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,” it says.
And also article 6, in which “every human being has the inherent right to life. This right will be protected by law. No one can be arbitrarily deprived of his life.”
Source: CNN Brasil
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