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In 2006, a teenage girl of the age of 16, Atefah Sahaaleh, was sentenced to death, and executed two weeks later by hanging in a public square for the charges of adultery and "crimes against chastity". [45] Death row prisoners sentenced while underage include at least one at 13-year-old (executed at 21) [46] and a 14-year-old (executed at 18). [47]
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 ...
On 5 December 2022, Karami and Hosseini were sentenced to death alongside three other men. The remaining eleven detainees, including the three juveniles, were sentenced to lengthy prison terms. The Supreme Court of Iran accepted appeals from three demonstrators, claiming inadequate investigations, on 3 January 2023. However, the death sentences ...
The commutation of Zanjani's sentence indicates that Iran's government is in need of revenue after years of U.S. sanctions on the country. In 2018, then President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of a nuclear deal with Iran that had aimed to lift sanctions on Iran in return for the capping of the country's nuclear activities.
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.
IHR is investigating numerous unconfirmed reports of further killings and also expects dozens of executions of those arrested on arbitrary death sentences. [15] As of November 5, 2022, at least 314 people have been killed in protests in Iran, including 47 minors and 38 security forces, according to HRANA and more than 14,000 were arrested. [16]
Hosseini was sentenced to death on 5 December 2022, alongside Mohammad Mehdi Karami and three other men. The remaining eleven inmates, including three adolescents, received hefty prison sentences. On 3 January 2023, the Iranian Supreme Court accepted petitions from three protestors due to insufficient investigations.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday Russia had already received missiles from the Islamic Republic, 2-1/2 years into the full-scale war in Ukraine. In response, the U.S. will ...