Nov 23, 2015
The
execution of a 25-year-old man who has been sentenced to death after an
unfair trial lacking basic safeguards would be both cruel and an
aberration of justice, said Amnesty International today following an
announcement that he will be hanged at Raja’i Shahr Prison in Karaj,
near Tehran at dawn tomorrow.
Alireza
Shahi was sentenced to death in June 2012 under the Islamic legal
principle of qesas (retribution-in-kind) for involvement in a fatal
stabbing which took place during a fight among several young men in
December 2008 when he was 18 years old. After his arrest he was placed
in detention for two weeks where he says he was tortured and otherwise
ill-treated to confess. He was also denied access to both a lawyer and
his family.
Click here to read the ENTIRE NewsFlash from Amnesty.
