Iran Executions: Prisoner Hanged at Sirjan Prisonاعدام یک زندانی در سیرجان

October 23, 2018

Iran Human Rights; October 22, 2018: A prisoner was executed on a murder charge at Sirjan Central Prison last Thursday. Sirjan is a city and the capital of Sirjan County in the Iranian province of Kerman.

According to HRANA, on the morning of October 18, 2018, a prisoner was hanged at Sirjan Prison. He is identified as Hassan Nosratabadi, 37. Hassan killed a person while trying to rob a home two years ago.

He was sentenced to qisas (retribution in kind) and the execution was carried out at Sirjan prison.

The Iranian media outlets have not published news related to the aforementioned execution so far.

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.