Execution of a young prisoner in Miandoab
9-December-2020
Category: executions
Breathing in Confinement, December 9, 2020: Only two days after the execution of one of the accused prisoners in the case of Sadegh Barmaki’s murder in Mahabad, the other accused prisoner also was executed on December 9, 2020.
According to Rokna news agency, quoting Aslan Heydari, the prosecutor of Mahabad city, the third defendant in the case of Sadegh Barmaki’s murder was executed today morning in Miandoab prison.
In June 2018, three defendants in this murder case which had taken place in September 2017, were sentenced to death by the Criminal Court in Mahabad.
One of the defendants named Daniel Zin al-Abedin, who was 17 years old at the time of his arrest, escaped from Mahabad Prison in April 2020, along with a group of prisoners. He however, was arrested and was beaten and transferred to Miandoab Prison, where he was beaten again and suspiciously died a day later.
Another defendant named Kamal Asghari was executed two days ago on December 7, 2020, and the third defendant named Daniel Diwani Azar was hanged today (December 9, 2020).