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The execution machinery continues unabated. – A brutal law that turns an innocent child into a murderer.
Iran This week, Human Rights released its annual report on the death penalty in Iran. The report reveals that the Iranian regime has kept the enforcement machinery going despite the pandemic. The number of executions in 2020 is similar to that of previous years. Iran is also the only country in the world to carry out executions for crimes committed by minors in 2020.
At least 269 people were executed by the regime in the past year. Most of the executions have been carried out against convicted persons. In addition, four people were executed for crimes they committed when they were under 18 years of age. Only one person was executed in public, which is the lowest number of public executions in the country in 15 years.
A total of nine women were executed.
Four of them were sentenced to death for killing their husbands. It is very common for women to live in a relationship where they are exposed to violence, but then there is no way out of misery. Murder is not something we defend under any circumstances, but I think some of these problems would have been solved if Iranian women and men were equal, both at home and in society, says Mahmood Amiry, Iran’s Director of Human Rights. . Moghaddam, to Nettavisen.
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Ended up as executioner – executed his own mother
On March 13 of this year, another woman was hanged for killing her husband, allegedly as a result of prolonged abuse.
Maryam Karimi and her father, the slain man’s father-in-law, were convicted of the murder. While the father-in-law was sentenced to a long prison term, Maryam Karimi was sentenced to death.
The couple Maryam and Ebrahimi Karimi had a daughter who was six years old when the murder occurred. 13 years later, the girl became her own mother’s executioner, Iran Human Rights reports from well-informed sources in Iran.
– The daughter was only 6 years old when the murder occurred. He stayed with his father’s family and was initially told that both of his parents were dead. Eventually she learned the truth. They told her the truth a few weeks before her mother’s execution to prepare her psychologically for what was to come, says Norwegian-Korean Amiry-Moghaddam, a professor and brain researcher by profession.
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
The mother was sentenced under the so-called Qisas clause. In short, the Iranian Islamic penal code considers it the right of a close relative to avenge the murder of a family member – an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Everything is happening under the auspices of the Iranian authorities.
“This shows how inhumane and brutal this law is, which transforms an innocent child, who has lost his father in a horrible way, into a human being who commits the murder of another human being,” Amiry-Moghaddam said.
Although barbaric methods of punishment such as execution by stoning, shooting and crucifixion are enshrined in Iranian Islamic criminal law, it is mainly hanging that is practiced by the clerical regime. It then happens that a relative of a murder victim physically performs the actual execution, which usually takes place in the prison yard or in a separate execution room in the prison building.
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– This is done by the relative pressing a button that releases the fallen branch under the feet of the sentenced prisoner, so that the person falls down and is hanged, or by the relative physically pushing a stool on which the sentenced prisoner to death he stands up, says Amiry -Moghaddam.
You can ask for retaliation, bloody money, or forgiveness.
Of the 267 people executed in Iran during the crown year 2020, 211 were sentenced to death under the Qisas Penal Code.
– This is a retaliation law. That is, someone who has committed murder is sentenced to death under this retaliation clause. In principle, this means that a relative of the murder victim carries out the actual execution of the person sentenced to death. According to the law, the relatives of the murder victim must ask for Qisas, blood money or offer forgiveness. Those who choose Qisas can carry out the execution themselves under the auspices of the authorities. They can also waive this right and ask their lawyer or the prison authorities to carry out the execution on their behalf. But they are obliged to be present and attend the actual execution. An execution of Qisas cannot be carried out without the presence of relatives, says Amiry-Moghaddam.
Little support for the death penalty
Opinion polls show that the regime’s practice of the death penalty has very little support among the Iranian population. A survey by Iran Human Rights, which is analyzed in the annual report on the death penalty in Iran, shows that 70 percent of Iranians want the death penalty to be abolished entirely (44 percent) or limited to very special cases (26 percent). ). 22 percent say they would like the death penalty in retaliation if a family member were killed.
– What is surprising is that there were three times more last year compared to the previous year who chose to leave Qisas. And that is in line with the general attitude towards the death penalty in Iranian society, says Amiry-Moghaddam.
The execution of Maryam Karimi was not mentioned in the Iranian state media, but has been widely covered by the British media, among others.
One particularly gruesome detail of the execution is that the father, who was serving a sentence in the same prison, was allegedly transported to the execution room shortly after the daughter’s death sentence was served.
He had to watch his dead daughter hanging and hanging from the ceiling for ten minutes. It is pure torture. It is sadism. There is nothing in Iranian criminal law that requires such treatment, says Amiry-Moghaddam.
– We call on the international community to condemn the use of the death penalty in Iran and to take a more active role in society in the movement against the death penalty that is now taking place in Iran, he says.
Amiry-Moghaddam refers to both physical and digital campaigns that have emerged in Iran in recent times that advocate for the abolition of the practice of the death penalty.
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