| 2017 Jul |
The men who admitted to stabbing and killing Farhang Amiri, a 63-year-old father of four children, in September 2016 in Yazd on the street outside his home in public view were sentenced by a court in Yazd.
The two brothers immediately admitted to have been motivated by religious hatred. "He was a Baha'i, we killed him to buy paradise for our seven generations". The older brother was sentenced to just 11 years in prison and two years away from home. The court justified the sentence by stating that according to the Islamic penal code, the accused and the victim are not equal for the general purpose of retributive justice. This astonishing provision clearly and deliberately deprives non-Muslims of the legal right to seek justice on equal-footing with the country's Muslim majority.
The younger man was sentenced to half of his brother's sentence for aiding in the murder.
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Farhang Amiri; Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution, Court cases; Court cases; Human Rights; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Yazd, Iran; Iran |
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