Iran Executions: Man Hanged at Zanjan Prison

According to IHR sources, death-row prisoner Sobhan Karimi was hanged on January 26, 2020, at Zanjan Central Prison. Zanjan is a city and the capital of Zanjan Province which lies 300 km north-west of Tehran. 

“Sobhan Karimi was sentenced to death around four to five years ago for murdering a man during a street fight,” a well-informed source told IHR. 

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.

In 2019, most of the executions in Iran were carried out for murder charges.