Iran Execution: Man Hanged at Gachsaran Prison

According to a report by HRANA, on the morning of Monday, August 20, a prisoner was executed at Gachsaran Prison. The prisoner, sentenced to death on murder charges, was identified as Keramat Hassani.

Keramat Hassani was from a village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad.

A close source told IHR, “Mr. Hassani’s family was attacked by three thieves in 2010 and their teenage son was murdered by them. Mr. Hassani shot two of the thieves which lead to the death of one of them and a severe injury in the spinal cord of the other one.”

It should be noted that the prisoner had gone on a hunger strike last year in protest because the prison guards tortured him frequently.

The execution of this prisoner has not been announced by the state-run media so far.

According to Iran Human Rights annual report on the death penalty, 240 of the 517 execution sentences in 2017 were implemented due to murder charges. There is a lack of a classification of murder by degree in Iran which results in issuing a death sentence for any kind of murder regardless of intensity and intent.