Mohammad-Taghi Shah-Veysi, a Kurdish prisoner from Kermanshah Province, has been executed at Kermanshah Central Prison (also known as Dizel Abad Prison) after being convicted of “premeditated murder”.
A father of four from the village of Gazneh in Salas-e Babajani, Shah-Veysi was put to death in the early hours of 6 May following his conviction for killing someone during an altercation.
Under Iran’s Islamic law, premeditated murder is punishable by qisas (retribution in kind), which gives the victim’s family the right to demand the offender’s execution or to grant clemency in exchange for financial compensation (diya, or blood money).
Shah-Veysi was arrested the previous year in connection with the incident.