IRAN: PRISONER HANGED ON MURDER CHARGES

According to the state-run news agency, Fars, on the morning a prisoner was hanged at Sari Centrals Prison on murder charges.
The Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Mazandaran, Asadollah Jafari says, “The defendant, A. P., son of Yar Mohammad, who was convicted of murdering F. M., was hanged at Sari Prison.”
According to Iran Human Rights annual report on the death penalty, 142 of the 530 execution sentences in 2016 were implemented due to murder charges.