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    Iran: Nafiseh Pakmehr, Woman on Death Row for 8 Years, Executed in Taybad Prison

    Iran Human Rights (IHR)

    A woman sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for the murder of her husband, has been executed in Taybad Prison.

    According to Iran Human Rights, a woman was executed at Taybad Prison on the morning of Sunday, March 14. Her identity has been established as Nafiseh Pakmehr, who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder.

    Informed sources have told IHR that Nafiseh was from the village of Qaleh Navabeqeh, in Taybad County, Khorasan-Razavi province but lived in Mashhad prior to her arrest. She had been arrested on charges of murdering her husband eight years ago.

    At the time of writing, Nafiseh’s execution has not been reported by domestic media or officials in Iran.

    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.

    https://iranhr.net/en/articles/4672/

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    Iran: Prisoner Hossein Akchin Executed in Ardabil

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    A prisoner named Hossein Akchin who had been sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Ardabil Central Prison last week.

    According to Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Ardabil Central Prison on March 14. He had been sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder and recently transferred to Ardabil Central Prison from Meshgin Shahr Prison for execution.

    His identity has been established as Hossein Akchin, who was around 35 years-old. According to informed sources, he was arrested on murder charges about six years ago and had been in prison since.

    At the time of writing, Hossein Akchin’s execution has not been reported by domestic media or officials in Iran.

    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.

    https://iranhr.net/en/articles/4675/

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    Iran: Prisoner Asef Taghinejad Executed in Tabriz

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    A prisoner named Asef Taghinejad who had been sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Tabriz Central Prison in early March.

    According to Hrana news agency, a man was executed in Tabriz Central Prison on the morning of March 8. His identity has been established as Asef Taghinejad, who was from the village of Aruq in East Azerbaijan Province, and had been sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder.

    Asef Taghinejad who had been behind bars on murder charges for 28 months, was executed without a last visit with his family in accordance with Iranian law.

    At the time of writing, Asef Taghinejad’s execution has not been reported by domestic media or officials in Iran.

    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.

    https://iranhr.net/en/articles/4676/

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    During Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's time in office between 2013 and 2021, over 3,600 death sentences have been carried out. That includes men, women and children for a variety of reasons. Mostly drug trafficking to insulting the Prophet Muhammad and conversion to other religions.
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    Iran sets third execution date in eight days for convicted killer

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    Iran has set a third date for the execution of a man convicted of a murder he committed at the age of 17 after the sentence was twice postponed amid an international outcry.

    Arman Abdolali, now 25, is due to be executed on Wednesday after he was convicted of killing his girlfriend, rights group Amnesty International reported.

    Iran has signed an international agreement banning the death penalty for people who committed crimes while under the age of 18.

    Campaigners say Abdolali was sentenced to death in December 2015 following an unfair trial marred by confessions obtained under torture.

    The Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights said Abdolali confessed to the murder at the time of his arrest, but the body was never found and he later withdrew his confession.

    The sentence was upheld in 2016 and he lost an appeal last year.

    He has been moved to solitary confinement for a third time at Raja’i Shahr prison in Karaj, on the outskirts of Tehran, in preparation for his execution, said Amnesty.

    Abdolali was due to die last Wednesday and at the weekend but the execution was postponed on both occasions.

    Iran executes more people each year than any other nation except China. Iran Human Rights said at least 64 juvenile offenders have been executed in the country over the past 10 years, with at least four executed in 2020.

    In a sign of international concern over the case, Germany's human rights commissioner Baerbel Kofler said carrying out the execution would be an “unacceptable breach of international law".

    “Arman Abdolali was a minor at the time of the alleged crime. There is credible evidence that his confession was obtained under torture and that the conviction thus contradicts fundamental principles of the rule of law,” she said in a statement released by the German foreign ministry.

    The UN has repeatedly condemned Iran for executing child offenders, saying it is a breach of international law.

    Iran signed a UN deal banning the practice in 1968 that was ratified seven years later.

    https://www.thenationalnews.com/worl...victed-killer/
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    Yousef Seifali Executed on Drug Charges in Isfahan

    Yousef Seifali was secretly executed on drug-related charges in Isfahan Central Prison on October 12. At least 95 prisoners, including a woman, have been executed on drug-related charges in Iranian prisons in 2021.

    According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed on drug-related charges in Isfahan Central Prison on October 12. His identity has been established as Isfahan-native, Yousef Seifali, who was on death row for four years prior to his execution.

    Despite 20 days passing, his execution has not been reported by domestic media or officials in Iran.

    According to Iran Human Rights’ Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran, at least 25 people were executed on drug-related charges in 2020. However, at least 95 people have so far been executed on the same charge in 2021.

    On May 3, IHR published a report on the death penalty in the first 4 months of 2021 expressing concern at the significant increase in the number of drug-related executions and continues to warn of the continuation of this trend.

    (source: iranhr.net)
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    Maryam Khakpour executed in Dastgerd Prison of Isfahan, another in Yasuj

    A woman was hanged in Isfahan at dawn on Thursday, November 25, 2021. Maryam Khakpour was the 124th woman executed in Iran since August 2013.

    Originally from Kashan, the 41-year-old Maryam Khakpour had been sentenced to death on drug-related charges five years ago.

    She had repeatedly claimed innocence, saying the drugs belonged to her husband. Nevertheless, she was sentenced to death, and her sentence was carried out in Dastgerd Prison of Isfahan, central Iran.

    Maryam Khakpour had been imprisoned in the past five years in the women’s ward of Dastgerd Prison. She divorced her husband three years ago. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

    Maryam Khakpour’s execution has not been announced yet by any state media in Iran.

    An article added to the Anti-Narcotics Law in 2017 limited the drug-related death sentences. However, the death penalty is still being used in drug-related cases.

    Execution of a couple in Yasuj
    Earlier last week, a couple were hanged in the *Central Prison of Yasuj, the capital of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province.

    The man was identified as Siavosh Ardeshiri, but the woman remains unidentified. The husband and wife had been arrested in December 2018 for murder. All the Iranian state media published the news of these hangings in Yasuj.

    The world’s chief executioner of women
    Iran holds the world’s top executioner record, with the highest number of citizens executed per capita. It is also the world’s chief executioner of women. An average of 15 women is executed in Iran every year. The executions are grossly unfair.

    The actual number of executions, particularly the number of women executed, is much higher. The clerical regime carries out most executions in secret and out of the public eye. No witnesses are present at the time of execution but those who carry them out.

    The Iranian regime open-handedly uses the death penalty as a form of punishment. In a discriminatory manner, this punishment is carried out against religious and ethnic minorities, political dissidents, and women.

    According to Amnesty International, more than two-thirds of the world countries have abolished or halted the death penalty. However, in Iran, the killing machine is taking up speed under Ebrahim Raisi, the notorious henchman of the 1988 massacre, and Gholam Hossein Mohseni Eje’i, another notorious judge involved in the genocide.

    https://women.ncr-iran.org/2021/11/2...on-of-isfahan/
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    Iran executes 100 children each year as brutal ‘eye for an eye’ justice system sees scores of kids on death row

    The barbaric laws, known as Qisas, leave prisoners - including children as young as nine - facing torture, unfair trials and public executions as punishment.

    Human rights groups have again hit out at the country's vile depravity which takes place behind closed doors and defies international laws after a report revealed shocking truths hidden behind the criminal justice system.

    The annual report of Human Rights Activists of Iran revealed 85 youngsters are currently on death row - despite capital punishment being prohibited worldwide for under 18's.

    They estimate up to 100 children are secretly put to death each year and believe authorities haven't publicised more than 82 per cent of executions.

    Under the Middle Eastern country's Islamic law, boys over 15 and girls over the age of nine can be tried as an adult for capital crimes such as murder.

    They can therefore be sentenced to death - in utter disregard for the public outrage or international condemnation they may face.

    Under its Islamic Penal Code, a death sentence can be handed down for crimes such as kidnapping, adultery, drinking alcohol, political offences and murder.

    Iran covertly flogged and executed two teenage cousins in April 2019 after an "unfair trial" - and didn't even notify them they had been sentenced to death.

    Mehdi Sohrabifar and Amin Sedaghat, both 17, were convicted of rape and spent two years in a juvenile centre in Shiraz before their deaths, according to Amnesty International.

    The pair bore lash marks on their bodies - suggesting they had been brutally flogged - before they were both secretly hung.

    Their families and lawyers were also not informed about their executions in advance, the human rights group said.

    Philip Luther, Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa Director, said of the killings: "It seems they cruelly kept these two boys in the dark about their death sentences for two years, flogged them in the final moments of their lives and then carried out their executions in secret."

    He dubbed the death penalty punishment a "flagrant assault on children's rights" and hit out at Iranian authorities "disregard of international law".

    The country is the top executioner of children in the world, Amnesty added.

    Luther continued: "We have identified a trend in which Iran’s authorities are carrying out executions of juvenile offenders in secret and without giving advance notice to the families, seemingly in a deliberate attempt to avoid global outrage."

    The untold stories of thousands of executions reveal a chilling trend in Iran's sickening secret execution spree.

    From the beginning of this year to October 9, the human rights group said 299 citizens are known to have been killed.

    In most cases, prisoners who are handed the death penalty are hanged, while crowds are encouraged to watch and some executions are televised - with several people sometimes killed at one time.

    One woman on her way to the gallows, Zahra Ismaili, suffered a heart attack after seeing 16 men hang in front of her - but her lifeless body was strung up anyway.

    Although many cases have been condemned on a global scale, Iran carelessly pushes ahead with its brutal death penalty regime.

    Kazem Gharibabadi, secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights and former UN representative at the UN, recently defended the punishments and insisted executing minors was not illegal or did not violate any of Iran's international commitments.

    But one 15-year-old spent nearly a decade on death row before he was secretly executed in August this year.

    Sajad Sanjari was convicted of fatally stabbing a man he said had tried to rape him and was hung nearly ten years later for the alleged crime, despite being arrested when he was a minor.

    His devastated family were only informed of his execution afterward when told to collect his body.

    Coerced confessions and torture

    And in November this year, Arman Abdolali was executed after spending eight years behind bars for murder where he was subjected to a "grossly unfair trial marred by torture-tainted 'confessions".

    He was arrested when he was aged just 17 after his girlfriend disappeared and was held in solitary confinement for 76 days and repeatedly beaten before his alleged confession.

    Despite appeals from UN human rights experts and Amnesty alike, authorities plowed ahead with the killing - despite the alleged victim's body never being found.

    Iran's abhorrent judicial system is chillingly designed to inflict as much pain as possible in retaliation for crimes.

    This includes prisoners having their eyes gouged out, hands chopped off and other amputations.

    Torture is also believed to rife in Iran's prisons, with electric shocks, floggings, water boarding and sexual violence used on prisoners, according to human rights groups.

    Shocking executions and barbaric punishments continue to be carried out under hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi who - despite activists claiming he has a bloody history steeped in murder - won a landslide victory to become president earlier this year.

    In the past, Raisi - known by some as The Butcher - has allegedly ordered the torture of pregnant women, had prisoners thrown off cliffs, and had people flogged with electric cords.

    He earned his sick nickname over his alleged involvement in the mass execution of political prisoners in the 1980's.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/171518...ustice-system/
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    Iran Executed 26 Prisoners In 10 Days

    As an instrument of harassment, Iran’s judiciary courts have been extremely busy with execution orders carrying out 26 executions in the span of just 10 days. According to reports, at least 26 people, including 2 women, were executed from May 17 to 27 in 11 Iranian provinces. 7 of the executed men were Baluchi citizens — an ethnic minority making up 5 % of the population — and were sentenced to death on “drug-related” charges.

    The clerical regime hanged 12 inmates in Kermanshah, Ilam, Birjand, Ardabil, Khalkhal, Ahvaz, Isfahan, and Amol prisons from June 7 to June 9. 12 prisoners from the Baluch minority were sent to the gallows in Zahedan Prison on June 6.

    On Tuesday, June 7, two members of the Arab minority, Majid Amouri and Qadir Naseri were executed in Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz in southwestern Iran. Majid Amouri, 25, from Ramshir, resisted regime agents in 2018 when his brother was being arrested, killing an officer of the security forces. Qadir Naseri, 23, resisted an attack by the regime’s agents against his residence in Mahshahr on June 20, 2016, when he was 17 leading to the death of two security forces. On the same day, an inmate named Ahmad Baranzehi was hanged in Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan.

    On Thursday, Doroud Yousef Beigi in Kermanshah prison, Javad Amini in Amol prison, and on Wednesday three other prisoners named Sattar Arghandeh, Khosrow Tarak, and Kamal Bayani in Ilam prison were sent to the gallows. Sattar Arghandeh and Khosrow Tark had been in prison for 18 and 7 years respectively.

    Moreover, a Baluch prisoner named Mohammad Reza Naroui in Birjand Prison, 2 prisoners named Hojjat Asyabani and Sajjad Takravi in Ardabil Prison, and 1 prisoner named Asghar (Hamid) Habibi in Khalkhal Prison were hanged on Wednesday. Asghar Habibi had spent 10 years in prison.

    Human rights activists and political analysts believe that by increasing the number of executions, Tehran is attempting to instill fear and intimidate Iranians, warning them that any opposition will be harshly dealt with.

    UN offers its concerns on the deteriorating state of human rights in Iran


    Calling almost all executions in Iran an arbitrary deprivation of life, a UN human rights expert has urged the country to reform its laws to end the imposition of the death penalty in violation of international law.

    “There are extensive, vague, and arbitrary grounds in Iran for imposing the death sentence, which quickly can turn this punishment into a political tool,” Javaid Rehman, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, told the UN General Assembly in delivering his fourth annual report.

    “In addition, the structural flaws of the justice system are so deep and at odds with the notion of rule of law that one can barely speak of a justice system,” he said. “The entrenched flaws in law and in the administration of the death penalty in Iran mean that most, if not all, executions are an arbitrary deprivation of life.”

    International community must adhere to its obligations toward human rights

    The state of civil and political liberties in a country is intricately related to its foreign policies; strengthening the former will facilitate the latter, producing more constructive foreign policies. It will not be an easy task, but it must start now if there is any hope of bringing peace and stability to the Middle East. A new policy toward Iran with human rights as one of its major pillars should adhere to four broad guiding principles. The nuclear crisis and geopolitical conflicts will find a long-term solution only when the international community, and in particular the US government, recognize the urgency of the Iranian people’s basic civil liberties and their voice in determining their government’s domestic and foreign policies. Thus, the new U.S. policy towards Iran must finally integrate human-rights concerns on their own merit and give them priority on par with other critical security issues.

    (source: eurasiareview.com)
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    Iran hangs man convicted of killing clerics in April attack

    Iran on Monday morning hanged a man convicted of killing 2 clerics in a stabbing attack in April at a revered Shiite shrine, the country’s state television reported.

    The report says the death penalty was carried out by hanging after the country’s Supreme Court upheld a verdict issued earlier by a Revolutionary Court in northeastern city of Mashhad, the place of the attack.

    The convicted man was identified as Abdollatif Moradi and authorities said he had stabbed three clerics. Two died, one instantly, the other later in a hospital. No further details were available following the attack at the city’s Imam Reza shrine, a rare act of violence at the major pilgrimage site for Shiite Muslims.

    However, Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim news agency said Moradi was an Uzbek national who had entered Iran illegally through Pakistan a year ago.

    The police have not offered a motive for the stabbing. The country’s interior minister, Ahmad Vahidi, at the time described it as a “terrorist attack” and vowed Iran would pursue the perpetrators and all “takfiris,” a term used for Sunni extremists who consider other Muslims infidels.

    4 other suspects were arrested on charges of collaboration in the attack.

    (source: Associated Press)
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