Iran on Monday executed a Jewish citizen convicted of murdering one other man in 2022 following an individual dispute, reviews mentioned. It was a uncommon case of an execution of member of a non secular minority within the predominately Muslim nation.
Mizanonline.Ir, a web site affiliated with Iran’s judiciary, mentioned 23-year-old Arvin Ghahremani was put to dying after the nation’s Supreme Courtroom affirmed the capital punishment handed down within the case earlier final yr.
The report quoted Hamid Reza Karimi, the prosecutor of the western metropolis of Kermanshah, as saying the courtroom and the convicted man’s attorneys and kin had didn’t persuade the sufferer’s household to abstain from qisas — an act underneath Islamic penal code that requires comparable punishment, or an “eye for a watch” — and successfully pardon his killer.
The sufferer’s identify was not offered.
In accordance with the report, Ghahramani attacked the sufferer exterior a health club in Kermanshah in 2022 and stabbed the person a number of occasions following a dispute over cash he had loaned the sufferer.
Jewish residents are a small minority within the nation of 85 million. In 1999, Iran arrested 13 Jewish residents, accusing them of spying for Israel and sentenced a number of to as much as 4 years in jail.
Many Jews fled the nation after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and present estimates counsel some 20,000 Jews stay in Iran. Shiite Muslims make up most of Iran’s inhabitants and the institution is led by hard-line clerics who preach a strict model of Islam.
