October 10 is the World Day Against the Death Penalty, with the goal to raise awareness about capital punishment and advocate for it to be abolished. On Wednesday, the ...
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Iran executed nearly 1,500 since 2022 protests began – rights group
At least 1,425 people have been executed in Iran since Mahsa Amini’s death in custody sparked a nationwide protest movement in September 2022, a new report by Norway-based Iran ...
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Iran Executes Four Baluch and Afghan Prisoners
Iranian authorities executed at least four prisoners in Yazd Central Prison on Monday. The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights reports that the executed individuals included two Baluch men and ...
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Iran executes over 300 individuals in first seven months of 2024
In the first seven months of 2024, over 300 people have been executed in Iran, according to a Monday Iran International report. In 2023, in total, 834 people were ...
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Iran hangs final defendant in 2008 case after ‘unfair trial’
Iranian authorities on Thursday executed Kurdish man Kamran Sheikheh, the last surviving defendant in a case linked to a Muslim cleric's killing in 2008, rights groups said. Sheikheh, one ...
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Iran Plans to Hang Juvenile Offender Amid Ongoing Execution Spree
Six prisoners, including one who was a minor at the time of his sentencing, were transferred to solitary cells in Adelabad prison in Shiraz, Iran on Thursday, in preparation ...
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