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Tag: death penalty
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MPs try again to remove death penalty from anti-drug law
A member of the Iranian Parliament’s judiciary and legal commission says a bill signed by 70 MPs proposes to eliminate the death penalty from…
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Judiciary confirms severity of drug crimes
The spokesman for the Iranian judiciary announced on Sunday that drug charges will continue to attract heavy penalties. At a press conference on August…
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Six forest rangers freed after death sentences stayed
The head of Iran’s Department of the Environment says six of eight forest rangers who were sentenced to death have now been released. IRNA…
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Saman Nasim, believed executed, still alive
At 3:00 PM on Saturday, Saman Nasim, the Iranian-Kurdish prisoner who was believed to have been executed in late February, called his family to…
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Young man could soon be executed in strange crime case
The Human Rights Organization of Iran reports that a young man who was charged with stabbing a member of the Basij may be in…
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Unofficial sources say political prisoner was hanged
Unofficial sources report that Saman Nasim, an Iranian-Kurdish political prisoner, was hanged in Urmia prison on Thursday February 19, although the news has not…
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Rights group appeals to Iran to spare condemned man
Amnesty International has called on Iran to halt the execution of Saman Nasim, who was found guilty of enmity against God for membership in…