Human rights advocates criticise Mohammad Ghobadlou’s conviction, saying he didn’t get a good trial.
Iran has executed a person who ran over and killed a policeman, and injured 5 different individuals, throughout nationwide protests in 2022.
Mohammad Ghobadlou was executed on Tuesday after being discovered responsible of the killing throughout mass protests two years in the past, in accordance with the judiciary’s Mizan information company. Nonetheless, human rights advocates criticised his conviction, saying he didn’t get a good trial.
“After being upheld by the Supreme Courtroom, the dying penalty towards defendant Mohammad Ghobadlou has been carried out early this morning,” Mizan reported.
The policeman was killed amid the large protests that adopted the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish-Iranian lady who was arrested for violating Iran’s strict costume code for ladies.
Ghobadlou was initially sentenced to dying in November 2022 after being convicted of “corruption on earth” for attacking police in Tehran with a automobile.
The Supreme Courtroom granted him a keep of execution in February 2023, and later ordered consideration of his psychological well being, in accordance with Mehr information company.
Mizan reported on Tuesday that the Supreme Courtroom had upheld the dying sentence, which was carried out below Iran’s Islamic legislation of retribution.
A whole lot died throughout the 2022 protests, together with dozens of safety personnel, and hundreds had been arrested over what officers labelled as foreign-instigated “riots”.
Ghobadlou is the eighth individual executed after being convicted of murder or different violence towards safety forces throughout the demonstrations.
‘Unfair sham trials’
Nonetheless, human rights group Amnesty Worldwide stated the 22-year-old’s proper to a good trial was violated, and his bipolar situation was not considered by the judicial system.
“Ghobadlou obtained two dying sentences after grossly unfair sham trials marred by torture-tainted ‘confessions’ and failure to order rigorous psychological well being assessments regardless of his psychological incapacity,” Amnesty stated.
Nonetheless, Mizan stated claims of psychological incapacity had been incorrect. Ghobadlou, it famous, had allegedly rejected the suggestion throughout his trial.
Earlier this month, dozens of individuals, together with Ghobadlou’s household, demonstrated in front of a prison within the Iranian metropolis of Karaj towards his sentencing in addition to that of one other younger man.
“My baby is sick, he has a medical file, however they don’t wish to settle for,” Ghobadlou’s mom shouted in a single video of the occasion at the moment, which was verified by Al Jazeera.
Iran executes extra individuals per yr than another nation besides China, in accordance with Amnesty, and often does so by hanging.
