The judiciary-run Mizan information company reported that Mohamed Ghobadlou’s demise sentence had been upheld by the Supreme Court and that he was carried out on Tuesday morning.
Videos posted on exterior social media confirmed relations, reportedly together with his mom and aunt, screaming in anguish exterior the gates of Karaj’s Khazar Hasar Prison, moments after the hanging was carried out.
“You killed my Mohammed. He took to the streets for all of the younger individuals,” one girl could be heard telling jail guards, in keeping with BBC Persian.
On Monday evening, Gobadrou’s mom made an emotional video attraction to the household of the officer convicted of the killing, urging them to not perform the punishment of “kisas,” or equal retribution.
She had beforehand requested authorities to take into consideration that her son had been identified with bipolar dysfunction as a young person and had stopped taking his treatment two months earlier than the protests, which lowered his duty.
Gobadroo’s lawyer, Amir Raessian, wrote to X on Monday evening that the execution was unlawful and tantamount to “homicide.” He argued that the Supreme Court had overturned his consumer’s demise sentence in July, citing his consumer’s psychological state.
However, Mizan reported that Raethian’s claims have been unfaithful and that the Supreme Court had twice rejected such appeals.
Amnesty International stated publicly final 12 months that Gobadlou had been sentenced to demise twice due to “a grossly unfair and sham trial tainted by tortured ‘confessions’ and the failure to order a rigorous psychological well being analysis regardless of his psychological incapacity”.
According to info acquired by human rights teams, after his arrest, investigators denied him entry to a lawyer, beat him repeatedly, and denied him treatment to deal with his bipolar dysfunction in an try and drive a “confession.”
He was additionally denied the appropriate to decide on a lawyer of his personal selection throughout two trials at a revolutionary courtroom in October and November 2022, the paper stated. During two trials at a felony courtroom in December of the identical 12 months, his chosen legal professionals have been denied entry to bodily proof.
Mahmoud Amiri Moghadam, head of the Norway-based Iranian Human Rights Group, condemned Gobadroo’s execution as an “extrajudicial killing.”
“The Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ali Khamenei, and the judiciary have to be held accountable for this crime.” He wrote to X, Externalpreviously Twitter.
After studying of his imminent execution on Monday, imprisoned human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi known as on Iranians to specific solidarity with Gobadroo’s household.
“The execution of Mr. Gobadroo was a premeditated homicide, a criminal offense, and to be silent concerning the homicide is a betrayal,” she stated in a put up on a thread account run by an outdoor relative.
“Don’t go away Mohammed’s household alone. Stand with them tonight. Everyone, in no matter method you possibly can, shout: No execution!”