Iran's judicial system announced the execution of a man in Bandar Abbas for the crime of "appealing to a police officer".
Iranian judicial authorities have executed a man who ran over a policeman during a standoff in Hormuzgan province for four years.
The General and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Hormuzgan District announced on Sunday morning the execution of one person "for the crime of murdering a policeman" in that district. The incident that led to the killing of a policeman happened four years ago during the confrontation between policemen and fuel smugglers.
According to the "Mizan" news agency, the death sentence of the murderer of the third lieutenant of the police who served in the city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran was executed today, Sunday.
On May 27, 1401, media in Iran reported that a police officer named 3rd Lieutenant Reza Tashmi was killed during a collision between fuel smuggling trucks and police officers. At the same time, the state news agency IRNA reported that the police officers stopped a truck, which they said was driven by Delek Mohin, on the Isin road near Bandar Abbas, and while transporting this truck to the police station, the truck stopped several times on the dirt road, and a Peugeot Press vehicle "drove deliberately and at high speed towards the police officers, injuring and injuring Liuten and injuring. Samhiri was killed."
The driver of this car was shot by the officers and detained and taken to jail.
IRNA says that the driver's name, Daniel G., was presented in court and that he is the son of the fuel truck driver.
Cases of executions of the death penalty in Iran have increased since the Iran-US war. May Sato, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran and other UN reporters announced on Friday the eve of the International Day Against the Death Penalty in a statement that the Iranian government has the highest death rate by a significant margin and is one of the few countries where the death penalty is still carried out.