Iran Human Rights, May 15: A prisoner identified as "Majid Jamali Fashi" was hanged in Tehran this morning.
According to the official site of the Iranian judiciary in Tehran," Majid Jamali Fashi" was convicted of "Moharebeh" and "corruption on earth" for murdering the Iranian nuclear scientist "(Masoud) Ali Mohammadi" and espionage for Mosad (the Israeli intelligence). He was sentenced to death in September 2011.
Iranian state media on Sunday announced that the trials of 10 to 15 "convicts of collaboration with Mosad (the Israeli intelligence service) took place in Tehran. According to these news "most" of those charged were sentenced to imprisonment. According to the Iranian opposition website Kalemeh the Iranian student Omid Kokabee was among those convicted for espionage on Sunday. Iran Human Rights has now confirmed that Omid Kokabee, the Iranian graduate student at the University of Texas, who was arrested by the Iranian authorities when he was visiting Iran, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail. According to the state run Mehr news agency the verdicts can be appealed within 20 days.
Iran Human Rights spokesperson condemned today’s execution and the heavy jail sentences issued on Sunday. He said: "We have many reports indicating that prisoners are subjected to torture and forced confessions". He added: "Often the prisoners are sentenced based on the confessions they have made under torture".
Source: Iran Human Rights, May 15, 2012
Majid Jamali Fashi Hanged: Iran Executes Accused Israeli Mossad Spy
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| Majid Jamali Fashi |
A man has been hanged in Iran after being accused of working as a spy for Israel.
Majid Jamali Fashi was executed after being found guilty of killing a nuclear scientist in 2010. He was convicted in August after a trial at a revolutionary court in Tehran.
Iranian state media said that Jamali Fashi was paid $120,000 to assassinate Professor Ali-Mohammadi, a lecturer at Tehran University, who died after a motorbike laden with explosives was detonated by remote control outside his home.
Fashi, whose official crime was reportedly "corruption on Earth", appeared in Iranian television in January to issue a confession for the killing.
He also detailed the Mossad operation and the intelligence he was said to have gathered.
However opposition groups in Iran have said Mohammdi was killed by the government for his anti-establishment views, and that Fashi's confession was made under duress.
Mohammadi is one of several Iranian nuclear experts who have been killed in suspected assassinations in recent years, as tensions over the country's nuclear programme have continued to rise.
Iran claims it is attempting to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes, but the US and Israel are adamant the country is attempting to build a nuclear bomb.
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Source: Huffington Post UK, May 15, 2012
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