Breathing in Confinement

Majid Sarpanah was hanged in public in the student’s park in Rasht.

3-October-2019

Category: executions

Breathing in Confinement – In the morning of Wednesday, October 23rd, a prisoner named Majid Sarpanah was hanged in public in the student’s park in Rasht.
According to a report received by Breathing in Confinement, Majid Sarpanah, 27, was accused of murdering a “policeman” during a scuffle in about 11 months ago. His friends and family’s efforts to prove his innocence and to obtain satisfaction from the victim’s family remained unsuccessful, and Majid was executed at dawn today- Wednesday, October 23, at 6 am in Student Park in Rasht.
Formerly, the governmental news agency “Rokna” had reported that this prisoner would be executed on Thursday. He, however, was executed Wednesday