The execution of German citizen Jamshid Sharmahd by Iran is an extrajudicial killing of a “hostage” who was kidnapped by the Iranian authorities overseas, an NGO stated on Monday.
Iranian authorities on Monday executed Sharmahd, detained since 2020 on fees of “corruption on earth”, the judiciary’s Mizan web site stated.
His household have lengthy maintained that Sharmahd, a German citizen of Iranian descent, was fully harmless and was seized by Iranian authorities in August 2020 whereas travelling by way of the United Arab Emirates.
“The execution of Jamshid Sharmahd is a case of extrajudicial killing of a hostage geared toward masking up the current failures of the hostage-takers of the Islamic Republic,” stated the director of Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam.
“Jamshid Sharmahd was kidnapped within the United Arab Emirates and unlawfully transferred to Iran, the place he was sentenced to dying and not using a truthful trial by the Revolutionary Court docket,” stated Amiry-Moghaddam, whose group carefully tracks executions in Iran.
One other NGO, the European Heart for Constitutional and Human Rights, condemned the execution as “stunning”.
“It’s one other signal of the weak point of the federal government, which doesn’t permit justice, as a result of Jamshid Sharmahd was denied a correct trial with an unbiased defence,” stated Wolfgang Kaleck, ECCHR’s secretary basic.
Kaleck added: “The illegal abduction of Sharmahd, his subsequent torture in custody, the unfair present trial and at this time’s execution are exemplary of the numerous crimes of the Iranian regime.”
In line with IHR at the least 627 individuals have been executed this 12 months by Iran. NGOs exterior Iran accuse the authorities of utilizing capital punishment as a device to instill concern all through society.
Sharmahd had been convicted of taking part in a task in a 2008 mosque bombing within the southern metropolis of Shiraz, through which 14 individuals had been killed and 300 wounded, allegations strongly rejected by his household.
