Iran executes Kurdish political prisoner
Iran said it executed on Wednesday a Kurdish militant who had been convicted of killing a police officer, a move condemned by rights groups who ...
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Iran just executed a gay man, he may be the third so far this year
Iran executed a gay man, Iman Safavi Rad, last Wednesday on homophobic charges of “sodomy.” His killing was at least the third anti-gay execution to ...
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Two inmates including a juvenile executed in Yazd and Birjand Prisons
On Sunday, May 15, 2022, the execution of a juvenile offender convicted of murder was carried out in Yazd Central Prison. Additionally, last Tuesday, in ...
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Iran executes two men for being gay
Two young men had been sentenced to death on charges of “sodomy by force” in the Iranian city of Maragheh, Iranian Human Rights Activist News ...
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Iran executes Farid Mohammadi for being gay
Two young men had been sentenced to death on charges of “sodomy by force” in the Iranian city of Maragheh, Iranian Human Rights Activist News ...
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Political prisoner hanged in Zahedan two executed in Shiraz and Khorramabad
On Monday, January 17, 2022, the clerical regime hanged a 33-year-old Baluch political prisoner, Abdolbaset Rigi, from Saravan, in Zahedan Prison after four years in ...
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Iran executes Kurdish man despite international appeals
Iran has executed a Kurdish man convicted of armed rebellion despite international appeals that his life be spared, activists said on December 20.
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Execution of juvenile offender ‘deeply alarming and shocking’
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Thursday condemned Iran's execution of a young man who was a minor at the time he was charged ...
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Ahwazi Arab political prisoner tortured and executed in southwest Iran
Iranian authorities executed a political prisoner from Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority. Political prisoners, Jasem Heydari, was executed along with three other prisoners on Sunday February ...
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Zabiollah Hormozi executed on drug charges in Mashhad
A Baluch prisoner named Zabiollah Hormozi who was sentenced to death on drug-related charges has been executed in Mashhad Central Prison. At least 64 people ...
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Arsalan Karimi executed on drug charges in Isfahan
Arsalan Karimi who was sentenced to death on drug-related charges has been executed in Isfahan Central Prison. At least 61 people have now been executed ...
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