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 Court, the death penalty against defendant Mohammad Ghobadlou has been implemented early this morning,” Mizan reported.
The policeman was killed amid the large protests that adopted the demise in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish-Iranian girl who was arrested for violating Iran’s strict costume code for ladies.
Ghobadlou was initially sentenced to demise in November 2022 after being convicted of “corruption on earth” for attacking police in Tehran with a automobile.
The Supreme Court docket 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 Court docket had upheld the demise sentence, which was carried out beneath Iran’s Islamic regulation of retribution.
Tons of died in the course of 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 particular person executed after being convicted of homicide or different violence in opposition to safety forces in the course of 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 received two death sentences after grossly unfair sham trials marred by torture-tainted ‘confessions’ and failure to order rigorous mental health assessments despite his mental disability,” Amnesty stated.
Nonetheless, Mizan stated claims of psychological incapacity had been unsuitable. Ghobadlou, it famous, had allegedly rejected the suggestion throughout his trial.
Earlier this month, dozens of individuals, together with Ghobadlou’s household, demonstrated in entrance of a jail within the Iranian metropolis of Karaj in opposition to his sentencing in addition to that of one other younger man.
“My child is sick, he has a medical file, but they don’t want to accept,” 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 some other nation besides China, in accordance with Amnesty, and often does so by hanging.