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Tag : death penalty

April 27, 2022

Interview: Atena Daemi was Jailed in Iran for Advocating Women’s Rights. Now She’s Free and Refusing to be Silent

When Atena Daemi was growing up in Iran and attending school in a religious-conservative neighborhood in south Tehran, she noticed the many ways in which women were treated differently than men. Girls had to cover almost every inch of ...

October 29, 2021

UN Expert: Death Penalty Used as a Political Tool in Iran

In a speech to the UN General Assembly for his fourth annual report, Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, criticized three vague criminal charges in Iran that carry ...

September 29, 2020

Witness to the Torture of Executed Champion Wrestler Navid Afkari Held Incommunicado

Shahin Naseri Transferred to Police Security Unit, Told Not to Testify in Court Witness States He Saw Afkari Being Severely Beaten with Metal Rod Shahin Naseri, a witness to the torture of Navid Afkari, the wrestler who was ...

September 14, 2020

UN “Strongly Condemns” Iran’s Execution of 27-Year-Old Wrestler

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 ...

May 9, 2019

UN Calls on Iran to Stop Executing Juvenile Offenders

(9 May 2019) – UN human rights experts* called on Iran to immediately halt the practice of executing child offenders, citing serious concerns for up to 90 individuals who were all under the age of ...

November 19, 2018

85 Countries Vote to Adopt UN Resolution Urging Iran to Halt Widespread Human Rights Violations

Editor's Note: This resolution was passed December 17, 2018, with 84 voting for, 30 against and 67 in abstention: http://undocs.org/A/73/589/Add.3.  Serious Concern Expressed for Unlawful Executions and Arbitrary Detentions November 19, 2018 – With two more votes than ...

November 7, 2018

Iran’s Corruption Courts Handing Out Death Sentences While Trampling on Rights to a Fair Trial

Five Death Sentence Issued in Preliminary Rulings, Two Upheld by Supreme Court November 7, 2018—Special courts set up by Iran’s judiciary and approved by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in August 2018 to try individuals accused of economic ...

September 5, 2018

Execution of Kurdish Death-Row Prisoner More Likely, Prison Officer Says

Fears for Ramin Hossein Panahi Grow Despite Torture and Due Process Violation Concerns   The execution of a Kurdish death-row prisoner has become more likely, despite credible questions regarding violations of due process ...

June 28, 2018

UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Appalled by Execution of Juvenile Offenders in Iran

Zeid Raad Al Hussein is the high commissioner of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights GENEVA (28 June 2018) - UN High Commissioner ...

June 20, 2018

Iran: Stop Imminent Execution of Kurdish Prisoner, Investigate Evidence of Torture and Denial of Due Process

Fear Grows After Bus Driver Was Executed in Iran Despite Similar Concerns June 20, 2018—The Iranian judiciary should immediately annul the death sentence issued against Kurdish prisoner ...

May 2, 2018

UN Rights Expert Urges Iran to Halt Imminent Execution of Ramin Hossein Panahi

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. ...

April 19, 2018

UN Rights Experts Call on Iran to Annul Death Sentence Against Ramin Hossein Panahi

GENEVA (19 April 2018) – United Nations human rights experts* have called for Iran to annul the death sentence against an Iranian Kurdish prisoner, Ramin Hossein Panahi, amid serious concerns that he has not received a fair ...

February 27, 2018

Iranian Criminal Court Sentenced Juvenile Offender to Death on Education Minister and MP’s Recommendation

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 ...

February 5, 2018

Iranian Hardline Cleric Says Protesters Should be Sentenced to Death

A Friday prayer leader in Tehran has called for the death penalty to be issued to citizens who participated in the weeklong protests that erupted across Iran in December 2017. “In our theology, ...

January 29, 2018

Iranian-Kurdish Activist Sentenced to Death Says He Was Wrongfully Convicted of Drawing a Weapon

Iranian-Kurdish political activist Ramin Hossein Panahi will appeal the death sentence he was issued on January 25, 2018, by Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, the capital of ...

January 26, 2018

Detainees Arrested in Iranian Protests Facing Charges That Carry Death Penalty

Some detainees arrested in the protests that broke out in Iran’s Hamadan and Khuzestan provinces in December 2017 are facing charges that are punishable by death, the Center for Human Rights in Iran ...

January 19, 2018

Man’s Hand Amputated as Punishment for Theft Conviction in Mashhad

A man’s hand was amputated with a guillotine on January 17, 2018, in Central Prison in the city of Mashhad, northeastern Iran, according to a local daily newspaper. “After the sentence was carried ...

January 10, 2018

Iran Suspends Thousands of Drug-Related Death Sentences After Years of Domestic and International Campaigning

January 10, 2018--An estimated 4,000 prisoners currently on death row in Iran for drug-related crimes could have their death sentences revoked according to a just-issued judicial order based on the country’s newly amended drug trafficking law. “Iran ...

January 5, 2018

Iran Executes 19-Year-Old Charged as Juvenile in Violation of Two International Treaties

Ignoring pleas by international organizations and in violation of two international treaties, Iran executed 19-year-old Amirhossein Pourjafar, who was sentenced to death as a juvenile, on January 4, 2018, in Tehran. ...

December 28, 2017

Ahmadreza Djalali’s Wife: My Husband Was “Framed” For Refusing to Spy for Iran

The wife of an Iranian-born Swedish resident sentenced to death in Iran on espionage charges has denied new allegations that her husband spied for the Israeli secret service, Mossad. “My husband was asked ...

November 3, 2017

Thousands of Iranian Death Row Inmates to Receive Sentence Reviews Under Amended Drug Law

Alleged drug traffickers stand in front of narcotics after a police operation. Thousands of Iranians currently on death row for low-level drug crimes will receive sentence reviews under a ...

October 26, 2017

UN Special Rapporteur: Despite “Encouraging Signs,” Human Rights Deteriorating in Iran

Asma Jahangir, the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In presenting her semi-annual 2017 report on Iran to the United Nations General Assembly, ...

October 25, 2017

Swedish Resident Facing Death Penalty: I Was Imprisoned For Refusing to Spy For Iran’s Intelligence Ministry

Ahmadreza Djalali poses for a picture with his wife, Vida Mehran-nia. Ahmadreza Djajali, an Iranian-born Swedish resident who was sentenced to death by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran in October ...

July 7, 2017

MPs Urge Judiciary to Halt Executions for Minor Drug Convictions Until Death Penalty Law is Amended

The Iranian Parliament’s Legal and Judicial Affairs Committee is calling on the judiciary to halt executions of prisoners convicted of petty drug offenses until a pending amendment to the law that could save thousands ...

July 6, 2017

Iran Death Penalty Bill Could Save Thousands on Death Row

Despite resistance from security organizations, a bill that could drastically reduce death penalty sentences for petty drug-trafficking crimes in Iran is scheduled to be debated in Parliament in July 2017. If passed, it could save thousands of prisoners currently on ...

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