2024-11-13 07:56:00
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian man convicted of raping dozens of women over the past two decades has been publicly executed, state media reported Wednesday.
Iranian state newspapers reported that Mohammad Ali Salamat was hanged after Iran’s Supreme Court confirmed his death sentence in early October. He was executed at dawn on Tuesday at a cemetery in the western city of Hamadan.
About 200 women have accused Salamat, a 43-year-old man who runs a pharmacy and gym in the city, of rape. He reportedly committed the crimes over the past 20 years.
Iranian media said that in many cases, Salamat raped his victims after proposing to them or dating them. He allegedly provided some abortion pills, which are illegal in Iran.
His arrest in January was the highest number of rapes ever committed by a single person in Iran. After Salamat was arrested, hundreds of people gathered outside the city’s judicial department, demanding Salamat be sentenced to death.
United Nations experts said in September that Iran was one of the countries with the highest number of executions in the world. The rising number of executions in Iran has sparked protests from human rights groups.
Rape and adultery are crimes punishable by death in Iran. In 2005, Iran publicly hanged a 24-year-old man who raped and murdered 20 children. In 1997, a 28-year-old man was hanged by authorities for kidnapping, raping and killing nine girls and women in Tehran.
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This story was translated from English by AP editors with the help of generated artificial intelligence tools.
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