Saeid Ghobadi, a prisoner convicted of murdering his wife, has been executed at Kermanshah Central Prison, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned.
Prison officials carried out Ghobadi’s execution at dawn on 21 September.
Ghobadi, from Sarpol-e Zahab in Kermanshah Province, was arrested about seven years ago on charges of “premeditated murder”, a crime punishable by qisas (retribution in kind), which gives the victim’s family the right to retaliate under Islamic law.
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