Execution Reported to Be Imminent, Wife Has Received Farewell Call Swedish-Iranian Doctor Was Convicted on Spurious Charges After Unfair Trial November 25, 2020—The reported imminent execution of Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian doctor and academic who was convicted ...
Execution of Navid Afkari: “Imposed following a process that did not meet even the most basic…fair trial standards, behind a smokescreen of a murder charge” UN human rights experts released a statement today “strongly condemning” Iran’s execution of ...
Death Sentence Was Result Pressure from Revolutionary Guards The family of Hedayatollah (Hedayat) Abdollahpour, a 27-year-old Kurdish-Iranian father of two who was on death row based on ...
GENEVA (2 May 2018) – A UN human rights expert has urgently called on Iran to halt the death sentence against Iranian Kurd Ramin Hossein Panahi amid reports he will be executed on Thursday. ...
Case Highlights Violations of Domestic and International Law and Judiciary’s Lack of Independence February 27, 2018–A young man who was incarcerated at 15 years of age was sentenced to death in Iran upon turning 18—despite the ...
Up to 5,000 people facing death in Iran could be saved as a result of a recently revised law--but there's a catch. Here's the story of an emerging Iranian policy ...
More than 70 Members of the Iranian Parliament have presented a bill that, if ratified by the full legislature and approved by the Council of Guardians (the constitutional body charged with approving legislation), could reduce the punishment ...
(1 December 2008) An Arabic translation of “Right to Life”, a book by Iranian human rights defender Emad Baghi, has been published by the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. The book presents groundbreaking research in ...
Emad Baghi’s piece “The Bloodied Stone” on the lawfulness within Islamic jurisprudence of stoning executions. ...
Letter by Emad Baghi to Head of the Judiciary, Ayatollah Shahroudi, about the jurisprudential process of capital punishment. ...
