Iranian authorities executed 23-year-old Mohammad Ahmadi in Sanandaj Central Prison at dawn on 16 June.

Ahmadi, from Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, had previously been sentenced to qisas, or retribution in kind, on charges of “premeditated murder”, according to informed sources.

The young man was arrested about three years ago on a charge of the “premeditated murder” of a person during a group altercation in Nobovat Square in Sanandaj.

The Criminal Court of Sanandaj subsequently sentenced him to qisas, which gives the victim’s family the right to demand the offender’s execution or to grant clemency in exchange for financial compensation, known as diya, or blood money.