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    Iran Executions - 2020

    Iran: Uncle Executed His Own Nephew

    Iran Human Rights (IHR); March 19, 2020: Death-row prisoner Alireza Sa’daei was hanged at Zanjan prison on March 11, 2020.

    According to IHR sources, Alireza Sa’daei was executed on the morning of Wednesday, March 11, at the central prison of Zanjan city, Iran.

    He was sentenced to qisas (retribution) for murdering his cousin four years ago. The plaintiff was Alireza’s own paternal uncle.

    “Alireza had lost his father several years ago. His mother begged the uncle to forgive Alireza but he refused. The uncle said he wanted to see the moment Alireza is dying,” the source told IHR.

    According to the Iranian Islamic Penal Code (IPC) murder is punishable by qisas which means “retribution in kind” or retaliation. In this way, the State effectively puts the responsibility of the death sentence for murder on the shoulders of the victim’s family. In qisas cases, the plaintiff has the possibility to forgive or demand diya (blood-money).

    Executions in Iran have continued to be carried out even after the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the country.

    https://www.iranhr.net/en/articles/4168/

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    Aren't executions in Iran open to the general public? Or is that Saudi Arabia

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    Most of them are done enclosed on prison grounds I believe. I don’t know how exactly they decide who they’re going to hang in public, probably just notoriety.
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    I know they used to hang homosexuals and women convicted of adultry and crimes against chastity in public. I don’t know if they still do. They also hanged Mohammed Bijeh in public after flogging him
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    Iran isn't letting the pandemic stop executions, hint hint
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

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    This seems a tad harsh..

    Iran: Man executed for drinking alcohol

    Amnesty International

    Following the Iranian judicial authorities’ confirmation that on 8 July, a man in the city of Mashhad was executed following repeated convictions for drinking alcohol, Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director of Middle East and North Africa, said:

    “The Iranian authorities have once again laid bare the sheer cruelty and inhumanity of their judicial system by executing a man simply for drinking alcohol. The victim was the latest person to be executed in Valkalibad prison, the site of numerous secret mass executions and a grotesque theatre of Iran’s contempt for human life.

    "We deplore the Iranian authorities’ repeated use of the death penalty, which has earned it the shameful status of the world’s second most prolific executioner. There is no justification for the death penalty which is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment, and we urge the Iranian authorities to abolish it.”

    Under Iran’s Islamic Penal Code, consumption of alcoholic beverages is punishable by 80 lashes, and if an individual is convicted and sentenced three times, the punishment on the fourth occasion is death.

    A 55-year-old, Mortaza Jamali, was named as the victim of the execution in Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan province, in reports by independent media outlets and on social media. At the time of writing, Amnesty International had not yet been able to obtain more information about the details of his trial and sentencing.

    In response to public outrage over the execution, the department of justice in Razavi Khorasan province issued an official statement today, listing the man’s criminal record from previous cases unrelated to his death sentence, in what appears to be a crude attempt to “justify” his execution.

    https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...nking-alcohol/
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    Iran executes defense ministry staffer as alleged CIA spy

    Iran has executed a former employee of the defense ministry who was convicted of spying on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency, the country's judiciary said Tuesday. It was the second such execution in the past month.

    The report said Reza Asgari was executed last week. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said Asgari had worked in the airspace department of the ministry and retired in 2016.

    “In the last years of his service, he joined the CIA, he sold information about our missiles ... to the CIA and took money from them," Esmaili said. “He was identified, tried and sentenced to death.”

    Occasionally Iran announces arrests and convictions of alleged spies for foreign countries, including the U.S. and Israel.

    In June, Iran said another alleged spy, Jalal Hajizavar, was hanged in a prison near Tehran. The report said Hajizavar — also a former staffer of the defense ministry — had admitted in court that he was paid to spy for the CIA. The report said authorities had also confiscated espionage equipment from his residence. It said the court sentenced Hajizavar’s wife to 15 years in prison for her role in the espionage.

    Before that, in 2016, Iran executed a nuclear scientist convicted of spying for the United States.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-exec...094832900.html
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    Iran: Two Kurds executed amid increasing use of death penalty as weapon of repression

    There has been an alarming escalation in use of the death penalty against protesters, dissidents and members of minority groups in Iran, Amnesty International said today, following the executions on 13 July of two Kurdish men in Urumieh prison in West Azerbaijan province. Diaku Rasoulzadeh and Saber Sheikh Abdollah had been convicted and sentenced to death in 2015 solely on the basis of torture-tainted “confessions” and amid overwhelming evidence pointing to their innocence.

    Hours later a judicial official announced that the death sentences of three young men imposed in connection with the anti-establishment protests in November 2019 had been upheld. In addition, at least five prisoners from Iran’s Kurdish minority and three prisoners from Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority are at risk of execution. Another Kurdish man remains forcibly disappeared and is believed to have been secretly executed by firing squad.

    Amnesty International is calling on the UN and its member states to urgently intervene to save the lives of those at risk of execution, and urge Iran to stop using the death penalty to sow fear and silence political opposition.

    “Diaku Rasoulzadeh and Saber Sheikh Abdollah are the latest victims of Iran’s deeply flawed criminal justice system, which systematically relies on fabricated evidence including ‘confessions’ obtained under torture and other ill-treatment to secure criminal convictions. Using executions as a tool to instil fear and maintain an iron grip on society is unimaginably cruel,” said Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa.

    “The death penalty is always a cruel and inhuman punishment. The case of these two men is so marred with flaws and lack of any credible evidence that the horror of their executions is highlighted even further.”

    Diaku Rasoulzadeh and Saber Sheikh Abdollah, who were in their early 20s and 30s respectively, were taken outside their cells in Urumieh prison on 13 July. According to information leaked from inside prison, they were deceptively told by prison officials that their death sentences had been quashed by the Supreme Court and they were being taken outside prison to start their retrial process. Instead, the prison officials transferred them to solitary confinement and executed them in the early hours of the following day, without their lawyers receiving prior notice.

    The two men had been on death row since 2015, having been sentenced in connection with a deadly armed attack in 2010, in which they had repeatedly denied involvement. Their trial was grossly unfair; it ignored the men’s strong alibis and relied exclusively on torture-tainted “confessions”, which, according to their lawyers, had been dictated to the men by officials from the ministry of intelligence and were riven with inconsistencies.

    Chilling rise in death penalty

    These latest executions follow a chilling rise in the use of the death penalty by Iran’s authorities apparently to intensify fear and deter popular protests over worsening political and economic crises engulfing the country.

    Hours after the executions in Urumieh, the spokesperson of the judiciary announced that the death sentences of three young men imposed in connection with the protests of November 2019 in Tehran had been upheld by the Supreme Court. This is despite widespread international condemnation and public outrage.

    Amirhossein Moradi, Mohammad Rajabi and Saeed Tamjidi underwent grossly unfair trials as well. Their allegations of torture and other ill-treatment were ignored and “confessions” extracted from Amirhossein Moradi without a lawyer present, reportedly through beatings, electric shocks and being hung upside down, were relied upon to convict them of “enmity against God” (moharebeh) through acts of arson and vandalism.

    The men denied the accusations. Even if they were true, acts of arson and vandalism do not reach the threshold of the “most serious crimes”, involving intentional killing, to which the use of the death penalty must be restricted under international law.

    Earlier on 30 June 2020, the judiciary announced that political dissident and journalist Rouhollah Zam had been sentenced to death for “spreading corruption on earth” (efsad-e fel arz) through running a popular social media news channel, called AmadNews, which the authorities have accused of inciting the protests of December 2017 and January 2018. His forced “confessions” have been repeatedly broadcast on state TV in recent months. His appeal is pending before the Supreme Court.

    At least three death row prisoners from Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority, namely Hossein Silawi, Ali Khasraji and Naser Khafajian, and five death row prisoners from Iran’s Kurdish minority targeted for real or perceived affiliation with armed Kurdish political opposition groups, namely Heydar Ghorbani, Houshmand Alipour, Saman Karimi, Arsalan Khodkam and Mohayyedin Ebrahimi, are also at risk of execution. All men were sentenced to death following grossly unfair trials which took place between 2016 and 2020 and relied primarily or exclusively on “confessions” obtained without the presence of a lawyer and under torture and other ill-treatment.

    Another Kurdish prisoner on death row, Hedayat Abdollahpour, has been forcibly disappeared since 9 May 2020 as the authorities refuse to reveal the truth concerning his secret execution and return his body to his family. A seventh Kurdish prisoner, Mostafa Salimi, was executed on 12 April 2020 in the city of Saqqez, in Kurdistan province. He was executed shortly after he was recaptured in apparent reprisal for his escape from prison in late March amid protests and riots over the spread of COVID-19 in Iran's prisons.

    Amnesty International is concerned that death row prisoners from Iran’s disadvantaged ethnic minorities are particularly at risk, given the authorities’ pattern of executing prisoners from these groups when concerned about the eruption of popular protests.

    “Iran’s increasing use of the death penalty as a political weapon for repression is alarming and warrants the immediate attention of the international community. Without urgent diplomatic and public action, more lives in Iran are at risk of being cut short by the state’s execution machine,” said Diana Eltahawy.

    Details of latest executions in Urumieh

    Diaku Rasoulzadeh, Saber Sheikh Abdollah and a third man, Hossein Osmani, were separately arrested in Mahabad in 2014. They were subsequently transferred to a detention centre in Urumieh, where they were held without access to their lawyers and families and mostly in solitary confinement for over a year. During this period, they said they were repeatedly tortured, including through severe beatings, floggings, electric shocks, sexual humiliation, suspension from the ceiling, and threats to arrest their relatives, to falsely “confess” that they had taken part in the 2010 armed attack and had travelled to Iraq for military training.

    Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court in Mahabad, which presided over their case, ignored compelling evidence showing that all three men were elsewhere at the time of the attack, and failed to investigate allegations of torture, even after Hossein Osmani showed the judge marks on his body. According to information obtained by Amnesty International, the men had been threatened by ministry of intelligence officials that they would be tortured further if they retracted their “confessions” in court. They had also been falsely promised to be spared the death penalty if they “co-operated”.

    In January 2017, the Supreme Court quashed their convictions and sentences on the grounds of lack of evidence and referred their cases for retrial. Hossein Osmani’s death sentence was subsequently reduced to 30 years’ imprisonment, but Saber Sheikh Abdollah and Diaku Rasoulzadeh were sentenced to death again in October 2017. Their sentences were subsequently upheld without their concerns over torture being addressed and despite the lack of credible evidence. In the following years, their requests for pardon were repeatedly rejected.

    Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases without exception regardless of the nature or circumstances of the crime; guilt, innocence or other characteristics of the individual; or the method used by the state to carry out the execution. The death penalty violates the right to life as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

    https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...of-repression/
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    2 prisoners executed in Shahrekord Prison

    2 prisoners on death row for qisas (retribution in-kind) for "premeditated murder" were executed in Shahrekord Prison, in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province.

    According to the Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting services (IRIB), on the morning of Sunday, August 2, the death sentences of two men were carried out in Shahrekord Prison. The two men sentenced to qisas for “premeditated murder” have only been identified by their initials, “B.D” and “F.A”.

    Abdulreza Ali Mohammadi, the attorney general of the capital of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, said: "One of the prisoners named B.D was arrested in the city of Naghan for the murder of a person named M.N. in 2017 and sentenced to qisas in 2018."

    He added: "Another person named F.A was arrested in city of Lordegan for the premeditated murder of a person named K.G in 2017 and he was also sentenced to qisas.”

    According to Iran Human Rights’ Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran, at least 225 of the 280 executed in 2019, were charged with "premeditated murder."

    As there are no legal distinctions made between murder and manslaughter, whether voluntary or involuntary in Iran, those charged under the umbrella term of “premeditated murder” will receive the death penalty regardless of intent and the circumstances.

    (source: iranhr.net)
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    3 Prisoners hanged in Hamedan; 32 executions in July 2020

    3 men arrested for the rape of a woman, have been executed in Hamedan Central Prison. The 3 defendants had never accepted the charges.

    According to Hamshahri Online, 3 men were executed in Hamadan Central Prison last week. The 3 prisoners were sentenced to death as co-defendants in a rape case.

    According to the report, the men pled their innocence every time they were taken to court for interrogation and investigations, and the conviction was based on the opinion of the forensic examiner and the identification office of Police.

    Referring to the rumors surrounding the case in Hamedan, the report said, "Some people said that the plaintiff in the case made the complaint because they were wealthy people and that the motive was financial."

    The report does not mention the exact identity and date of execution of the 3 prisoners.

    In July 2020, 32 people were executed in Iran, meaning that on average, more than 1 person was executed every day.

    (source: iranhr.net)
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

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    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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