TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian man convicted of raping dozens of girls over the previous twenty years was executed in public, the nation’s state media reported Wednesday.
State newspaper IRAN mentioned Mohammad Ali Salamat was hanged after Iran’s Supreme Court upheld his demise sentence in early October. He was executed at daybreak Tuesday at a cemetery within the western metropolis of Hamedan.
Around 200 girls had accused Salamat, a 43-year-old who ran a pharmacy and fitness center within the metropolis, of rape. He is claimed to have dedicated the crimes for the previous 20 years.
Iranian media experiences say that in lots of circumstances Salamat raped his victims after proposing marriage or relationship them. He allegedly supplied some with abortion capsules, that are unlawful in Iran.
He was arrested in January in what was the biggest variety of rape circumstances ever attributed to a single offender in Iran. After his arrest, tons of of individuals gathered on the metropolis’s justice division, demanding capital punishment for Salamat.
United Nations consultants mentioned in September that Iran is among the many world’s main nations finishing up executions. The rising variety of executions in Iran has sparked protests from human rights teams.
Rape and adultery are among the many crimes punishable by demise in Iran. In 2005, Iran publicly hanged a 24-year-old man who had raped and killed 20 kids. In 1997, authorities hanged a 28-year-old man for kidnapping, raping and killing 9 women and girls in Tehran.
