Iran: Man Hanged in Public

According to IRNA, on the early morning of Monday, August 26, a man was hanged in public at Babolkenar Forest Park, Mazandaran province. He was sentenced to death for killing two people for robbing their cash. The prisoner was named as H, 25. 

UN human rights experts, including the former Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran, had previously drawn particular attention to continued reports of public executions. “a dehumanising effect on both the victim and those who witness the execution” and ultimately reinforced the “already cruel, inhuman and degrading nature of the death penalty,” UN experts said.