TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian man convicted of raping dozens of girls over the previous twenty years has been executed in public, the nation’s state media reported on Wednesday.
The state-owned IRAN newspaper stated Mohammad Ali Salamat was hanged after Iran’s Supreme Court confirmed his demise sentence earlier in October. He was put to demise at daybreak Tuesday in a cemetery within the western metropolis of Hamedan.
Some 200 girls had accused Salamat, a 43-year outdated who ran a pharmacy and a gymnasium within the metropolis, of rape. He is alleged to have dedicated the crimes over the previous 20 years.
Reports by Iranian media stated that in lots of the instances, Salamat raped his victims after proposing marriage or courting them. He allegedly supplied some with abortion drugs, that are unlawful in Iran.
He was arrested in January in what was the most important variety of rape case ever attributed to a single offender in Iran. Following his arrest, a whole lot of individuals gathered on the metropolis’s justice division, demanding capital punishment for Salamat.
U.N. specialists stated in September that Iran is among the many world’s high international locations that perform executions. Increasing variety of executions in Iran has prompted an outcry by human rights teams.
Rape and adultery are amongst offences in Iran punishable by demise. In 2005, Iran publicly hanged a 24-year-old man who raped and killed 20 youngsters. In 1997, authorities hanged a 28-year-old man for kidnapping, raping and killing 9 women and girls in Tehran.
