Iran: Man executed for drinking alcohol
Iran: Man executed for drinking alcohol
Following the Iranian judicial authorities’ confirmation that on 8 July, a man in the city of Mashhad was executed following repeated convictions for drinking alcohol, Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director of Middle East and North Africa, said:
“The Iranian authorities have once again laid bare the sheer cruelty and inhumanity of their judicial system by executing a man simply for drinking alcohol. The victim was the latest person to be executed in Valkalibad prison, the site of numerous secret mass executions and a grotesque theatre of Iran’s contempt for human life. (Amnesty International, UK, 10.07.2020)
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/07/iran-man-executed-for-drinking-alcohol/