Iran: Unidentified Prisoner Executed in Public on Murder Charges

March 11, 2017, 8:04 p.m.

Iran Human Rights (MAR 11 2017): An unidentified prisoner was reportedly executed in public on murder charges.

According to a report by the state-run news agency, Jaame Jam Online, the public execution was carried out on Thursday March 9 in the city of Yazd in front of the parking lot of Mullah Ismail mosque. The report claims that the unidentified prisoner and his brother robbed a jewellery store in August 2015 and killed the jewellery store owner's son in the process.