Iran’s judiciary has sentenced two prisoners to death in public.
Tabnak State-Run Website reported on March 27 that two men, accused of killing a police officer have been sentenced to execution in public.
Tabnak cited the head of the Fooladshahr court as stating that the two men, Mohammad. Gh, 38, and Sadegh.M, 25, have been sentenced to hanging in public by the First Branch of the Isfahan Revolutionary Court.
An anonymous source has identified the two prisoners as Mohammad Ghaedi and Sadegh Mahmoudi.
According to the source, Sadegh Mahmoudi was sentenced to death without any crime and was tortured to make confessions.
He said that Sadegh Mahmoudi had been tortured to such an extent that “he was no longer normal” and “had become mentally ill.”
“Prison officials hung Sadegh from the wrists with handcuffs. They punched Sadegh in the nose so much that his nose was broken,” the source said.
Issuing public execution sentences sounds the alarm over a new cycle of repression by the clerical regime, which has already been stepped up during the Tenure of Ebrahim Raisi.
