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Iran's Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence imposed on a member of the all-volunteer wing of the country's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard who stormed a house during the 2022 protests over ...
MPs are calling on the government to hold Iran accountable for it’s extensive use of the death penalty Hundreds of MPs call for action against Iran’s mass use of the death penalty Skip to main ...
On 11 January Mizan, the arm of Iran's state media, announced that Akbari had been sentenced to death. [11] Before Akbari's execution, Iran's state news agency, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), announced that the Supreme Court of Iran had upheld Akbari's death sentence, declaring that it was based on "substantiated evidence."
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Iran. [2] The list of crimes punishable by death includes murder; rape; child molestation; homosexuality; drug trafficking; armed robbery; kidnapping; terrorism; burglary; incest; fornication; adultery; sodomy; sexual misconduct; prostitution; [3] [4] plotting to overthrow the Islamic government; political dissidence; sabotage; arson; rebellion ...
Amnesty further called for "the international community" to pressure Iran to cease handing down death sentences and carrying out executions. [ 13 ] Masih Alinejad , a United States-based dissident, called on the European Union to recall their ambassadors in the wake of the execution while saying, "Majidreza Rahnavard's crime was protesting the ...
Ukraine and Russia blame each other for the dam’s destruction, which has sent floodwaters across a war zone and forced thousands to flee. Some experts say the dam may have collapsed due to ...
The grave of Mohsen Shekhari. On 25 September 2022, Shekari attended a protest against the death of Mahsa Amini in Tehran, Iran's capital city.During the protest, Iranian authorities asserted that he blocked or closed off a main road in Tehran, Sattar Khan Street, [3] and used a machete to non-fatally wound a member of the Basij militia, which was sent in to quell the protests.
Ukraine’s $1.3 billion drone war is now being led by a rap artist who has been fighting on the front line – and in his music - since the start of the war, Sam Kiley reports