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Tag: drug charges
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“They are treated like trash!” – Abuses in Iran’s Rehabilitation Centers
“…if you’re brought there under article 16, they’d rough you up. I saw them kill a guy with my own eyes. It was four…
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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 Tries to Abolish Death Penalty for trafficking as it Wrestles with Rising Drug Charges
Iranian parliament’s Judicial Commission spokesperson has announced that this commission has agreed with a proposal to reduce death penalty to 30 years in prison…
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Iran Keeps Defending Executions For Drug Related Charges
Iranian authorities reacted to UN condemnation of executions of prisoners convicted of trafficking drugs.
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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…