A Kurdish man was hanged on February 28, 2018, in Central Prison of Ilam, in western Iran.
Mehdi Kazemnia 28, was found guilty of murder.
A blood money in exchange for the victim’s execution was accepted. Being poor the family could not pay.
In Iran, convicted murderers have one last chance to escape the gallow if the families of their victims choose to spare the murderers’ lives, often in exchange for “blood money.”
ABOUT US
Iran Human Rights Monitor website is dedicated to support the Iranian people’s struggle for human rights and amplifies their voices on the international stage. Its purpose is to cover executions, arbitrary arrests, torture and amputation, prison’s conditions, women, social, ethnic and religious minorities oppression news in Iran and fill the gaps in information and knowledge caused by lack of access and freedom to Iran. The information provided by Iran Human Rights Monitor are in collaboration with the NCRI (National Council of Resistance of Iran)
