Category: Arrests and Executions
Iran executed 670 in 2011, says U.N. investigator
(Reuters) - Iran executed some 670 people last year, most of them for drug crimes that do not merit capital punishment under international law and more than 20 for offences against Islam, a United Nations investigator said on Monday. The investigator, former Maldives foreign minister Ahmed Shaheed, also reported what he said were a wide range of [...]
Iranian regime sentences newspaper editor to prison for ‘propagating against government’
Ahmad Gholami, writer and editor in chief of Sharq Daily, was sentenced to one year of suspended prison by the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court presided over by Abolqasem Salvati. According to reports, Ahmad Gholami was charged with propagating against the government and based on this was sentence to one year of prison which [...]
Iranian regime to hang 10 prisoners including 3 women in Zahedan
According to reports, 10 prisoners are to be hanged tomorrow morning in the town of Zahedan. On Friday March 9, 10 prisoners were transferred to solitary cells in the Zahedan Prison for execution. The families of these 10 prisoners, three of which are women, visited their loved ones in prison to bid their last goodbyes. [...]
FIVE ARAB MEN AT IMMINENT RISK OF EXECUTION
Five members of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority, including three brothers, their cousin and another man are at imminent risk of execution in public, after their death sentences were upheld by the Supreme Court. The sentences may be intended to deter Ahwazi Arabs in Iran from demonstrating on the 15 April anniversary of protests held in [...]
Iranian regime hangs man in public in Karaj
The retribution sentence for a man convicted of murder was publicly carried out in the morning in Fardis in Karaj after it was upheld by the Supreme Court. This murderer identified as Amin Khazayi son of Hamid-Reza was sentenced to death on charges of carrying out a murder with a knife and robbing a 23 [...]
Iran Detains 6,000 Foreigners, Mostly Illegal Aliens, Mehr Says
Bloomberg-Iranian authorities have detained about 6,000 foreigners, Mehr reported, citing Mohammad Tahouri, managing director of the Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrants’ Affairs. Most of these detainees are illegal immigrants, Tahouri said, according to the report published today by the state-run news agency. Mehr gave no time frame for the detentions. “They have been arrested by Iranian police [...]
Malekpour in imminent danger of execution
Saeed Malekpour’s sister says his family has not heard from him in 50 days and they fear that he may be executed at any time. The International Campaign for Human Rights reported yesterday that Maryam Malekpour, the sister of the Iranian detainee currently on death row, said: “We have not been allowed to visit him [...]
Iran: Overturn jail sentence and release human rights lawyer
Iranian human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani has been sentenced to 18 years in prison on politically motivated charges. As one of Iran’s most prominent and most courageous human rights defenders, there can be little doubt that Abdolfattah Soltani is being persecuted for his legitimate work as a defence lawyer. Ann Harrison, interim Deputy Middle East [...]
Iranian regime hangs man in public in Karaj
The retribution sentence for a man convicted of murder was publicly carried out in the morning in Fardis in Karaj after it was upheld by the Supreme Court. This murderer identified as Amin Khazayi son of Hamid-Reza was sentenced to death on charges of carrying out a murder with a knife and robbing a 23 [...]
Iran steps up crackdown on journalists and activists
(TheGuardian) So far, it has been a dreadful week for journalists and activists in Iran. According to the opposition website, Kaleme.com, a Tehran appeals court has confirmed the jailing of prominent Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, albeit reducing it from 11 years to six. The 39-year-old, the deputy head of Iran’s Defenders of Human Rights Centre [...]
Iran to execute five Ahwazis ‘within days’: rights activist
By HADI TORFI Iranian authorities informed the families of five detainees from the Arab-dominated Ahwaz province that their sons will be hanged in public “within days” for allegedly killing a security member and wounding another in 2011, a local human rights activist told Al Arabiya on Tuesday. The detainees include three brothers – Abdelrahman, Taha, and [...]
Iran human rights lawyer jailed 18 years
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran has sentenced a prominent human rights lawyer, Abdolfattah Soltani, to 18 years in jail for allegedly spreading anti-regime propaganda, several opposition websites reported on Tuesday. “One of my husband’s lawyers was told that my husband was sentenced to 18 years in jail in Borazjan (south Iran) and was also banned from [...]
Election “saboteurs” arrested
RadioZamaneh-The head of security for the Tehran election committee said today: “So far 10 saboteurs who had arrived in Tehran from abroad have been arrested and are currently in custody.” Mohammad Taghi Bagheri told the Fars News Agency: “All the individuals that were in touch with foreign elements were identified through cyber links.” Following the [...]
Three Iranian journalists released from jail, but dozens remain behind bar
by Saeed Kamali Dehghan guardian.co.uk Good news about the situation of journalists behind bars in Iran is rare, especially these days when the regime has stepped up its crackdown on any sign of dissent ahead of Friday’s parliamentary elections. But here is some good news, of a sort: Three Iranian journalists, Marzieh Rasouli, Parastoo Dokouhaki and [...]
Teacher sentenced to death – pardon denied
Political prisoner Abdolreza Ghanbari’s pardon was rejected – sentenced to death. Translation by Freedom Messenger HRNA report: Ghanbari’s apology was rejected in the commission of Justice in Tehran. This teacher is at risk of being executed. Ghanbari’s family said in an interview with HRNA that they are deeply worried after hearing about the rejection [...]
Student Activist Sewed Lips Together in Protest, Now Arrested
Freedom Messenger-Student Activist Dariush Jalali has been arrested for the second time this week. The young student activist was violently detained by security forces on February 23rd and has been taken to an unknown location. Jalali sewed his lips together and chained himself to a metal rail outside of his university as an act of [...]
Iranian regime hangs two men in Mazandaran
The Mazandaran Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor said that two rapists were executed in the cities of Sari and Tonekabon… “According to the verdict issued by the 2nd branch of the province and its confirmation in one of the branches of the Supreme Court, two convicts were sentenced to death. The sentences were carried out at [...]
Widespread arrests in Sanandaj and Mashhad
RadioZamaneh-In the past two days, the Iranian ciities of Sanandaj and Mashhad have seen widespread arrests involving 220 people. The Kordpa website reports that the Intelligence Ministry in Sanandaj arrested 35 people gathered at a house in Hassanabad, a Sanandaj suburb. The identities of the detainees have not been announced yet, and the charges against [...]
Iranian journalist sentenced to jail
RadioZamaneh-Iranian journalist Mahsa Amrabadi has been sentenced to a prison term for the second time in the past two years. The Kaleme opposition website reports that Mahsa Amrabadi has been sentenced to five years in jail for “assembly and collusion against national security.” Four years of her sentence is suspended; however, one year of it [...]
Iranian journalist held in Azerbaijan over drugs
BAKU (Reuters) – An Iranian journalist is being held in custody on suspicion of drug possession in Azerbaijan, prompting a warning from Iran’s embassy that the arrest could damage already tense relations between the neighboring nations. Anar Bayramli, a reporter for Iran’s Sahar TV and the Fars news agency, was detained last week and Azeri [...]