Prisoner Jafar Mansour-Beigi Executed in Shiraz, Iran

According to Iran Human Rights, a male prisoner was executed in Shiraz Central Prison (Adelabad) on February 23. The prisoner, identified as Shiraz native, Jafar Mansour-Beigi, was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder.

An informed told IHR: “Jafar had been behind bars for four years and in that time, had not been able to obtain his victim’s family’s consent, he was executed on Tuesday morning at Adelabad Prison in Shiraz.”

Jafar Mansour-Beigi was transferred to the gallows with two other prisoners identified as Ali Sayati and Habib Sayati, who are related and sentenced to qisas as part of the same case. They were returned to their cells after obtaining a 60-day extension from their victim’s family.

As there are no legal distinctions made between murder and manslaughter, whether voluntary or involuntary in Iran, those charged under the umbrella term of “premeditated murder” will receive the death penalty regardless of intent and the circumstances.