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Tag: death penalty
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The Islamic Republic Executed Aqil Keshavarz amid Iran’s 2025 Execution Surge
Aqil Keshavarz was executed on “Israel spying” charges amid a sharp rise in executions, post-war securitization, mass arrests, and expanding death-penalty laws. The Islamic…
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Iranian Barber Faces Imminent Execution Following Sham Trial
Urgent alarms are mounting over the fate of Mehrab Abdollahzadeh, a 28-year-old barber from Urmia, whose death sentence has been finalized by the Iranian…
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“He Never Stopped Defending Us”: The Suspicious Death of Lawyer Khosro Alikordi
Human rights lawyer Khosro Alikordi dies suddenly after sustained state pressure, prompting prison protests, a nationwide lawyers’ statement, and scrutiny of Iran’s war on…
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1,500 Death-Row Prisoners Go on Mass Strike as Executions Surge
About 1,500 death-row inmates in Ghezel Hesar Prison launched a hunger strike against mass executions, declaring: “Our patience has run out from this endless…
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Zamaneh Media Hosts Gala and Premieres Film about Death Penalty in Iran
Zamaneh media’s exclusive gala night premiering a film on the subject of right to life was received well and guests from Iran, Netherlands and…
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Activists and UN Officials Call on Iran to Stop the Hanging of a Kurdish Prisoner
UN officials and right to life activists in Iran have called upon Iran to stop the execution of a Kurdish prisoner who has reportedly…
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Save Mohammad Ali Taheri’s Life and Resist Judicial Clerocracy in Iran
The news was starkly succinct. On August 27, 2017, Mr. Ismaili, the General Manager of Tehran’s Judiciary announced that Mohammad Ali Taheri, the leader…
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More Changes to the Drug-Related Death Penalty Proposal in Iran
While Iranian MPs are requesting that judiciary temporary suspends executions for minor drug charges, a proposal to amend the law and reduce execution rates…
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Iran executes a juvenile offender
Two young prisoners were executed for committing murder in Iran, one of them a juvenile offender who had carries out the crime when he…
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30 Sunni prisoners on the death row transferred to an undisclosed location in Iran
Riot control guards have raided prison ward 4 associated with Sunni prisoners on death row in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj, Iran. The riot…
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Family spares forest ranger from death sentence
Asadollah Taghizadeh, a forest ranger who was arrested and sentenced to Qesas seven years ago for killing an illegal hunter in the Dena forest…
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Official again raises possibility of reducing drug-related executions
Mohammad Javad Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Headquarters of the Judiciary, has once again said that reform of the country’s death penalty…