Abdorrahman Boroumand Center

for Human Rights in Iran

https://www.iranrights.org
Promoting tolerance and justice through knowledge and understanding
ABC in the Media

Qassameh: When A Plaintiff's Relatives' Oaths Become a Gallows (BBC Persian Video)

BBC Persian
BBC Persian
February 24, 2018
Web article

In this February 2018 segment produced by BBC Persian, Abdorrahman Boroumand Center Executive Director Roya Boroumand and legal expert Musa Barzin discuss qassameh - a procedure by which a defendant can be sentenced to death solely on the basis of a plaintiff's relatives' sworn oaths in certain conditions foreseen in Iranian law - and the case of a Saleh Shari'ati, an alleged juvenile offender at risk of execution in a qassameh case.

(Video Link: Persian only)