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Condemned for Compassion: The Death Sentence of Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri
“My father has been condemned to death,” wrote Zhino Beigzadeh Babamiri, daughter of Kurdish-Iranian political prisoner Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri, in a post on X…
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A Houthi-Run Court in Yemen Upholds Death Sentence for a Member of the Baha’i Faith
A court in Yemen has upheld the death sentence of Hamed bin Haydara. Bin Haydara is a member of the Baha’i faith, who has…
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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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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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Top court revokes death sentence for forest ranger
Iran’s Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence issued to a Dena Forest Ranger and returned the matter to a different branch of the…