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21 December 2025<\/strong> Breathing in Confinement \u2013<\/strong> The death sentence of at least one prisoner, who had previously been arrested on charges of \u201crape\u201d and \u201cmurder\u201d and sentenced to death, was carried out in public at the cemetery of Borazjan.<\/p>\n According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran, in the early hours of Tuesday, 2 December 2025, the execution of at least one prisoner was carried out publicly in the city of Borazjan, at the local cemetery. The prisoner had earlier been arrested on charges of \u201crape\u201d and \u201cmurder\u201d and sentenced to death by judicial authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The identity of the prisoner is still under investigation.<\/p>\n Based on information received from Breathing in Confinement reporters, the prisoner had been arrested in 2018 in Borazjan on charges of raping and killing a 10-year-old girl named Sogand Tamizi. Following judicial proceedings, he was sentenced to death by public hanging. The sentence was ultimately carried out at 4:00 a.m. on Tuesday, 2 December 2025, next to the burial site of the victim.<\/p>\n Regardless of the nature and severity of the alleged crime, carrying out the death penalty in public constitutes a clear example of a cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment. Under fundamental human rights principles, including those enshrined in international human rights standards, such punishment is absolutely rejected and prohibited.<\/p>\n Public executions not only violate the inherent human dignity of the condemned individual, but by turning punishment into a public spectacle of violence, they also expose citizens involuntarily to severe psychological harm. From this perspective, executions carried out in public amount to a form of collective punishment, contradicting the principles of criminal justice, individual criminal responsibility, and proportionality between crime and punishment.<\/p>\n Furthermore, claims regarding the \u201cdeterrent effect\u201d of public executions lack credible scientific and empirical support. Such practices have not led to a reduction in crime; rather, they contribute to the normalisation of state violence within society. No one should be subjected, as a member of society, to witnessing punishment or displays of violence.<\/p>\n Breathing in Confinement considers this act a clear violation of the Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s international human rights obligations and calls for the immediate end to such inhuman and degrading punishments.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n No official report<\/strong><\/p>\n As of the time of this report, the execution of this prisoner has not been announced by official sources.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Annual Report on Executions in Iran<\/strong><\/p>\n According to the annual report by the Statistics Centre of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran, at least 1,170 individuals were executed in Iran in 2024. 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\nNews category: Execution<\/strong><\/p>\n