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 ...
Tag : Drug Crimes
October 20, 2017
After Years of International Condemnation, Iran Revises Death Penalty Policy
Amendment to Drug Law Could Result in Drastically Reduced Execution Rate After years of being pressured by the UN and other rights groups to ...
July 27, 2017
Prisoners’ Families Plead for Stays of Executions Until Vote on Potentially Life-Saving Amendment
The families of prisoners facing imminent execution gathered in front of the judiciary’s headquarters in Tehran on July 26, 2017 to ...
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 ...
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 ...
June 14, 2017
Parliamentary Committee Blocks Security Agencies’ Attempts to Significantly Delay Death Penalty Amendment
A Parliamentary committee in Iran has blocked an attempt by security agencies to delay for a year a parliamentary vote ...
March 17, 2017
Amendment Could Save Thousands of Drug Traffickers on Death Row in Iran
If passed by Parliament and the Council of Guardians, an amendment to Iran’s death penalty law could save thousands of drug traffickers currently facing execution. ...
October 4, 2016
More Than 150 Members of Iran’s Parliament Call for Ending Execution of Petty Drug Traffickers
The majority of Iran’s MPs have signed a proposal to amend a current law that would make it harder to condemn ...
December 10, 2015
Ground Shifts as 70 MPs in Iran Introduce Bill to End Executions for Drug Crimes
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 ...