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Tag : moharebeh

December 12, 2022

Lynching in Iran: Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, Publicly Hanged in State-Sponsored Murder

Young People will Continue to be Killed in Iran without International Action  December 12, 2022 – The hanging in public of Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, in Mashhad today—the second execution of a young person in Iran without due process in less ...

May 20, 2019

Iran: Release Political Prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared

Behind Bars Unjustly Since 2009, Eligible for Release in 2017 May 20, 2019—Iran must end the cruel and unlawful imprisonment of Maryam Akbari-Monfared, who has already served nearly 10 years on baseless charges and should ...

March 10, 2018

Father and Son Political Prisoners Kept on Death Row in Iran For Eight Years Despite Deteriorating Health

Two prisoners of conscience who have been behind bars for nearly a decade in Tehran’s Evin Prison have been denied medical leave despite suffering from serious illnesses, a ...

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 ...

December 11, 2017

Supreme Court Upholds Swedish Resident Ahmadreza Djalali’s Death Sentence

Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence issued against Iranian-born Swedish resident Ahmadreza Djalali, who has been imprisoned in Tehran since April 2016 after being arrested by ...

October 23, 2017

Iranian-Born Swedish Resident Sentenced to Death Based on Forced Confession

Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-born Swedish resident who has been imprisoned in Iran since April 2016, was sentenced to death for “moharebeh” (enmity with God) based on a forced confession, ...

June 9, 2014

Cartoon 86: The Execution

Fars News Agency wrote on Sunday, June 1, 2014 that Gholamreza Khosravi Savadjani, a political prisoner charged with moharebeh (enmity with God), was executed inside Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj. Gholamreza Khosravi ...

June 22, 2012

Despite Shaky Evidence, Hamid Ghassemi Awaits Execution

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, sister of Hamid Ghassemi,a prisoner whose death sentence has been sent to the Judiciary’s Sentence Enforcement Unit, reported about her brother’s poor psychological state in prison. “Unfortunately, Hamid is really messed up psychologically. ...

April 30, 2012

Judiciary Representative Takes Statement of Kurdish Death Row Prisoners

After months of receiving no response to their letters, Zanyar and Loghman Moradi, two Kurdish prisoners on death row, were finally visited by a Judiciary representative on Tuesday, 24 April. A Mr. Khodabakhshi, who identified himself as a representative of the Head of the Iranian ...

April 27, 2012

Supreme Court Unlawfully Confirms Kurdish Prisoner’s Execution

Shirkoo Moarefi, a Kurdish political prisoner on death row, has embarked on hunger strike to protest his ambiguous legal status in prison. Saeed Sheikhi, Moarefi’s lawyer, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the Supreme Court unlawfully took on his client’s case. ...

August 4, 2010

Lawyer Says Client Should Have Been Sentenced to One Year In Prison, Not Death

Mohammad Ali Haj Aghaee's death sentence on the charge of moharebeh (enmity with God) has been upheld by an appeals court in Tehran. His lawyer, Mehdi Hojjati, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, "He was accused of cooperating with the ...

January 20, 2010

Death Sentence Issued for Female Kurdish Political Prisoner

(21 January 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran expressed serious concern regarding the increasing number of death sentences issued for Kurdish political prisoners following unfair trails. According to Kurdish human rights organizations, at least 20 political prisoners have been condemned to death. During ...

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