IRAN - Majid Sadr was hanged at Kashan prison on July 3.

Majid Sadr was hanged at Kashan prison on July 3. According to an Iranian website, IMNA, Rouhollah Dehqani, the Kashan's prosecutor’s deputy for criminal affairs, said the victim was sentenced to Qisas (punishment of retribution) on a murder charge for killing a woman four years ago. The source has not revealed nor the name, nor the exact time of the execution. The executed person has been later identified as M S, but his/her full name or gender remained unrevealed. Later on, an informed source (iranfocus, iranhr) wrote that the name of this prisoner was Majid Sadr, who was taken from the 5th section of Kashan prison for execution. Sadr, a resident of Ravand Kashan, had a wife and an infant child. Sadr was innocent and was forced under torture to confess to the murder of a woman, the source added.