German citizen’s execution by Iran ‘extrajudicial killing of hostage’: NGO

Iranian authorities executed German citizen Jamshid Sharmahd, abducted in the UAE in 2020, for alleged corruption charges, a move condemned by NGOs as an extrajudicial killing. Norway-based Iran Human Rights called it a hostage taking to cover up failures, while the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights criticized the lack of fair trial and justice. Sharmahd’s family maintained his innocence, rejecting allegations of involvement in a 2008 mosque bombing, and NGOs accuse Iran of using capital punishment to instill fear, with over 600 executions reported this year.

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