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    Iranian Journalist Could Face Death Penalty For Allegedly “Insulting” Shia Prophet

    Pouyan Khoshhal Fired From Reformist Ebtekar Newspaper

    Center for Human Rights in Iran

    Iranian journalist Pouyan Khoshhal has been arrested in Tehran and charged with a crime that could carry the death penalty for using the word “demise” instead of “martyrdom” while referring to a revered figure of Shia Islam.

    He was also fired from the reformist Ebtekar newspaper, which issued an apology instead of defending the journalist.

    Khoshhal was taken into custody on October 25, 2018, while waiting to board an international flight at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport and charged with “insulting the divinity of Imam Hossein and other members of the prophet’s blessed household,” the Iranian judiciary’s official news agency Mizan reported.

    According to Iran’s Islamic Penal Code, those convicted of insulting Imam Hossein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, could be issued the death penalty.

    Article 262 states, “Anyone who swears at or commits qazf against the Great Prophet [of Islam] (peace be upon him) or any of the Great Prophets, shall be considered as Sāb ul-nabi [a person who swears at the prophet], and shall be sentenced to the death penalty.”

    On October 21, Ebtekar had published a report by Khoshhal, “Disease Awaits Careless Pilgrims,” about the medical issues faced by the millions of Iranians who take a pilgrimage to Iman Hossein’s shrine in Karbala, Iraq annually. Last year, 2,320,000 Iranians made the trip, according to state media reports.

    “Every year, pilgrims travel to the city of Karbala to mark the 40th day of the anniversary of Imam Hossein’s demise,” wrote Khoshhal.

    The next day, the word “demise” was changed to “martyrdom” and Ebtekar’s Chief Editor Reza Dehaki issued an apology. Khoshhal was also fired from his job.

    “In our report, instead of the word ‘martyrdom,’ another word was used by mistake and for this we apologize to Imam Zaman, Imam Hossein and all Shi’ites,” Dehaki wrote.

    Hardline officials responded to the apology by demanding Khoshhal’s arrest.

    Without mentioning Khoshhal’s name, Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi announced on October 24 that an arrest warrant had been issued for the journalist “who published numerous articles that insulted Imam Hossein.”

    Khoshhal was also attacked by social media users who called for his execution.

    “According to the fatwas of all Shia religious leaders, [Khoshhal] is guilty and should be executed as soon as possible,” tweeted user “Ammar,” who in his Twitter profile describes himself as a willing martyr for Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

    “Khomeini95,” who considers himself “a simple cleric,” also tweeted that Khoshhal should be “skewered” for being a “threat to society.”

    On the other hand, some journalists in Iran defended Khoshhal while criticizing the newspaper for firing him.

    “What Pouyan Khoshhal wrote could really have been an error. Ebtekar’s publisher and editors showed how dishonorable they are by firing Khoshhal and the twitter wave against him is absolutely disgraceful,” tweeted journalist Mahsa Jazini.

    The conservative Kayhan newspaper, which claims to have a direct line to the supreme leader, meanwhile criticized the Ebtekar newspaper for allowing a reporter to use an allegedly inappropriate noun to describe Imam Hossein’s death.

    “What’s worth noting is that Ebtekar’s publisher is Mohammad Ali Vakili, a member of Parliament’s leadership [committee], and unfortunately a member of the Press Supervisory Tribunal as well and yet he has no clue what is going on in his own newspaper,” said an unsigned editorial in Kayhan on October 23.

    The Ebtekar newspaper has been repeatedly banned and reopened in Iran, including during the first term of current President Hassan Rouhani.

    On October 29, the tribunal issued a warning to the newspaper, according to the Fars News Agency.

    https://www.iranhumanrights.org/2018...-shia-prophet/

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    Iran to execute two Kurdish women on adultery charges

    By Kosar Nawzad
    Kurdistan 24

    ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – An Iranian court recently sentenced to death two Kurdish women on adultery charges, a Kurdish rights group reported on Monday.

    “A Kurdish woman for Mako by the name of Gulistan Jnikanlou was sentenced to death by the Khoy Criminal Court of West Azerbaijan Province, accused of committing zina,” reported Hengaw, a group which writes on human rights violations involving Kurds in Iran.

    “Zina” is an Arabic term, meaning acts of sexual intercourse prohibited by Islamic law. The court announced its decision on Sunday.

    Jnikanlou, a mother of two children, was arrested on allegations of committing adultery in 2017. She was released on bail shortly thereafter.

    In the same year, local authorities also arrested a man with whom they claimed Jnikanlou had intercourse. The man’s fate is yet unknown.

    The punishments Iran hands out according to what the government considers to be criminal acts have long been criticized by the international community as well as rights groups.

    The Khoy Criminal Court also sentenced to death another woman, 37-year-old Zahra Derakhshani. She has been in prison for the past two years awaiting trial.

    Both women were arrested on accusations their husbands made.

    For both men and women, Iran’s penal code considers adultery to be a “crime against God,” punishable by 100 lashes for unmarried individuals, according to a UNHCR investigation into the country’s laws.

    Married offenders are sentenced to death by stoning. Cases of adultery must be proven either by a repeated confession by the defendant or by the testimony of witnesses – four men or three men and two women.

    However, in Hodud (morality) crimes such as adultery, the Islamic Republic’s penal code gives judges the authority to use their own “knowledge” to arrive at a verdict in cases lacking substantive evidence.

    The Penal Code also permits a husband to kill his wife and her lover, if he caught them in the act.

    http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/4...6-df886059ab04
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    Iran: Man Arrested As A Teenager Sentenced To Death

    Iran HRM

    Shayan Saeedpour, a juvenile offender was sentenced to death on October 23, by the first branch of Provincial Criminal Court of Kurdistan, headed by judge Vafaian.

    Born in 1997, Shayan Saeedpour is convicted of killing a man during a fight on August 16, 2015, while under the age of 18. He has been in jail since.
    Evidences suggest that Saeedpur suffered was under the supervision of a psychiatrist before committing the crime.

    A source close to Saeedpour family said that Shayan was under the age of 18 and was affected by alcohol drinks at the time of committing the crime. Since then, he has been detained in the Central Prison of Sanandaj. The source emphasized that Shayan Saeedpour has been under psychiatric care and attempted suicide on numerous occasions.

    Iran is a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child both of which expressly prohibit the use of the death penalty against anyone convicted of a crime committed when they were under 18.

    Yet the authorities have shown no sign of stopping horrific practice of sentencing juvenile offenders to death.

    Amnesty International says it has details of 49 people on Iran’s death row who were under 18 at the time of the crime they are alleged to have committed. The UN says there are at least 160 such people facing execution in the country. In fact, there are likely to be many more young offenders on Iranian death rows, as use of capital punishment in Iran is often shrouded in secrecy.

    https://iran-hrm.com/index.php/2018/...nced-to-death/

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    Iran: Juvenile Offender Seyyed-Danial ZeinolAbedin Sentenced to Death

    Iran Human Rights

    Seyed Danial ZeinolAbedini is a juvenile offender whose death sentence has been upheld by the Supreme Court and is scheduled for execution. Iran Human Rights (IHR) urges the Iranian authorities to stop juvenile executions and calls on the international community to pay urgent attention to Seyyed-Danidal's case.

    According to the IHR sources, Seyyed-Danial Zeinolabedin was born on August 9, 2000. He committed a murder on September 22, 2017. This means he is sentenced to death for a crime committed under the age of 18.

    Under Article 91 of the Islamic Penal Code which was added to the law 5 years ago, judges are allowed to issue alternative verdicts for the minors. The juvenile offenders whom a judge considers not mature enough to realize the nature of the crime committed can face prison terms.

    Seyyed-Danial’s lawyer, Asoo Arya, told IHR, “my client is underage. According to Article 91 of Iran’s Islamic Penal Code, execution of people under 18 years old is not allowed unless the court recognizes the defendant as a mature person by sending him/her to forensics. My client has not been sent to forensics.”

    However, according to Article 91 of Iran's revised Islamic Penal Code, it is up to the presiding judge's discretion to deem the juvenile mature enough to understand the nature of the offense: "In the cases of offenses punishable by hadd or qisas, if mature people under eighteen years do not realize the nature of the crime committed or its prohibition, or if there is uncertainty about their full mental development, according to their age, they shall be sentenced to the punishments prescribed in this chapter."

    Otherwise, the Islamic Penal Code puts the age of criminal responsibility for males at 15 and 9 for females.

    However, the article could neither stop nor even decrease the execution of juvenile offenders. From the application of article 91 in 2013 to the end of 2017, at least 35 juvenile offenders have been hanged in Iranian prisons.

    https://iranhr.net/en/articles/3570/

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    World Day 2019: More than 212 executed since the beginning of the year in Iran

    Iran Human Rights (IHR); October 10, 2019: According to the statistics department of IHR, Iranian authorities have executed 212 prisoners including 2 juvenile-offenders between January 1 and October 10, 2019. This report is being published on the occasion of the 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty, which aims at raising awareness about the children as unseen victims of the death penalty.

    According to reports by IHR, so far in 2019, at least 212 prisoners have been executed in Iran but only 68 cases were announced by the official Iranian media. Other 144 cases were confirmed by Iran Human Rights (IHR) through its sources. IHR only reports the unannounced executions if it could confirm those with two separate credible sources. Therefore, the actual number of executions may be even higher than reported.

    Out of 211 executions, 12 were carried out in public. At least two juvenile-offenders were executed for crimes committed before they turn 18.

    164 executions were carried out for murder charges. According to the Iranian Islamic Penal Code, murder is punishable by qisas (retribution in kind). 25 people were executed so far in 2019 for drug-related charges.

    “The Islamic Republic of Iran is the top executioner of the Middle East and second in the world following China,” Said IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, “However, the civil abolitionist movement is growing in Iran.”

    https://www.iranhr.net/en/articles/3970/

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    Iran to execute alleged CIA spy, officials say

    Iranian officials on Tuesday announced that a man accused of spying for the CIA will soon be executed.

    The country's judiciary spokesman, Gholamhossein Esmaili, accused Amir Rahimpour of being "a CIA spy," saying he attempted to share "part of Iran’s nuclear information" with the United States' top intelligence agency, Reuters reports.

    "He will see the consequences of his action soon,” Esmaili added.

    In addition to the pending capital punishment, Esmali said that two other individuals were sentenced to 15 years in prison for spying and acting against Iran's national security.

    While he didn't release the nationalities of the other two, Esmali did say that they were "working under the cover of an organization and charitable foundation."

    Iran doesn't recognize dual citizenship, so its judiciary prosecutes those with dual citizenship as Iranian nationals.

    According to the wire service, last summer Iran had announced that it had broken up a U.S. spy ring of 17 people and that some of them had been sentenced to death. At the time, President Trump responded with a tweet: "The Report of Iran capturing CIA spies is totally false. Zero truth.”

    The CIA has declined to comment on the regarding the two individuals given prison sentences and The Hill has reached out for comment over the man set to be executed.

    https://thehill.com/policy/internati...-officials-say
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    Iran’s judiciary sentences couple to death over corruption

    The long arm of the Iranian law has reached the “sultan of cars” and his wife, last in a line of market manipulators sent to the gallows.

    An Iranian judge has ordered a sentence of death for a man and his wife over multiple corruption charges, on top of them disrupting the country’s auto market.

    According to judiciary spokesman Gholam-Hossein Esmaili, the couple were found guilty of money laundering, sabotaging Iran’s forex, and hoarding 6,700 vehicles purchased from Saipa, one of the giant but crisis-hit domestic carmakers.

    Iranian authorities also confiscated over 24,000 gold coins worth nearly $43 million and over 100 kilograms of gold at the residence of Vahid Behzadi and his wife Najva Lashidaee in the capital Tehran. Under the law, the couple still have the right to appeal their death sentences.

    The trial came at the height of economic turbulence hitting Iran’s already crumbling and sanctions-hit auto industry. Plummeting production coupled with deep-rooted corruption has in recent weeks sent free market prices of Iranian homemade vehicles soaring by 60%.

    Known as a well-connected tycoon, Behzadi has earned the title “sultan of vehicles”, a moniker Iranian media has given other powerful business moguls each “unlawfully” controlling and disrupting a sector of the Iranian economy.

    “It is simplistic to assume that stability will return to the auto market after cracking down on a handful of hoarders,” wrote Reformist paper Aftab-e-Yazd, “because we are dealing with an ailing market.” The remedy, according to the Aftab-e-Yazd, will come only from an “important decision” whereby the monopoly gripping the auto industry is lifted. Iran’s state-owned car producers have for decades been enjoying an uncompetitive business environment, which has in turn led to accumulated consumer dissatisfaction.

    Another pro-Reform daily Arman-e-Melli suggested that the roots of the car market’s crisis need to be traced at upper management within the auto industry, where a hoarder is allowed to purchase thousands of cars and thus gains the power to manipulate the market. “The rules of the game have been wrongly set,” the editorial argued, leaving room for “such sultans to exploit lack of transparency."

    Echoing the same assertion, ultraconservative daily Javan criticized the “production line of corruption,” alleging that such individuals are only part of a fraudulent network linked to other powerful institutions including the parliament.

    A harsh crackdown on financial corruption has become a key priority of the Islamic Republic since May 2018, when American sanctions were reimposed on the Iranian economy following Washington’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.

    The consequent depreciation of the Iranian national currency among other ramifications provided privileged individuals and entities with the opportunity to bring the mayhem into the service of profiteering. To stabilize the crisis-hit environment, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei granted the judiciary special powers to tackle fast-growing fraud with a merciless, zero-tolerance approach.

    The new policy has already pushed several convicts to the gallows: “The sultans” of petrochemicals, tar, paper and gold coins. In this, hard-line Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi has been trying to position himself as an iconic flagbearer with an iron fist, which has even hit many close to the upper echelons of power, among them a brother of President Hassan Rouhani as well as the son-in-law and daughter of 2 former ministers within the president’s entourage.

    Nevertheless, whether the Chief Justice is pursuing a genuine anti-corruption drive remains an open debate. Those targeted claim that Raisi has been granting legal immunity to the like-minded while fixating on political rivals with no leniency.

    https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/ori...ltan-cars.html
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    Trump Condemns Impending Execution Of Three Protesters In Iran Amid Uproar

    President Donald Trump has joined millions who "stormed" Twitter last night to condemn the death penalty for three young Iranians arrested in widespread anti-regime protests last November.

    Top officials from different countries worldwide, including Denmark and Sweden, have also lambasted Tehran for upholding the death penalty for the young protesters.

    In two tweets in Persian and English, President Trump has warned that executing the three is imminent.

    "Three individuals were sentenced to death in Iran for participating in protests. The execution is expected momentarily," President Trump tweeted, adding, "Executing these three people sends a terrible signal to the world and should not be done! #StopExecutionsInIran."

    Immediately after the news broke out that the Islamic Republic Supreme Court had upheld the death verdict against Amir Hossein Moradi, Mohammad Rajabi, and Saeid Tamjidi, an unprecedented "storm" of protest erupted on Twitter.

    As of noon, Iran time (+5:30 GMT) today, Wednesday, July 15, about six billion users had seen the tweet, and more than five million have retweeted it, so far.

    According to a report compiled by the "We the Digital Citizens" campaign for Radio Farda, at least 556,000 users have tweeted more than 500,000 messages containing this hashtag, #StopExecutionsInIran. In an overnight "storm", the hashtag was retweeted more than four million times.

    Many public figures and some politicians in Iran also joined the campaign.

    https://en.radiofarda.com/a/trump-co.../30728798.html
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    Iran halts execution of 3 convicted over November protests

    Iran has halted the executions of three young men linked to deadly November protests, sentences which had sparked widespread outrage, one of the accused’s lawyers told AFP on Sunday.

    Last week a court had upheld their death sentences over evidence the judiciary said was found on their phones of them setting alight banks, buses and public buildings during the wave of anti-government demonstrations.

    “We conveyed a request to review the verdict to the supreme court and they have accepted it,” the lawyer, Babak Paknia, said over the phone.

    “We hope the verdict will be overturned.”

    The lawyer identified the three as friends Amirhossein Moradi, a 26-year-old retail worker, Said Tamjidi, a 28-year-old driver for Snapp (Iran’s Uber), and Mohammad Rajabi, also 26 and unemployed.

    They were sentenced to death for “collusion to endanger national security” and “destroying and setting fire to public property with the aim of confronting the political system of the Islamic republic,” said Paknia, who represents Moradi.

    The trio had also received prison sentences on other convictions including theft and leaving the country illegally, he added.

    The demonstrations erupted on November 15 after authorities more than doubled fuel prices overnight, exacerbating economic hardship in the sanctions-hit country.

    They rocked a handful of cities before spreading to at least 100 urban centres across the Islamic republic.

    Petrol pumps were torched, police stations attacked and shops looted before security forces stepped in amid a near-total internet blackout.

    – ‘Very hopeful’ –
    A senior Iranian lawmaker said in June that 230 were killed and thousands injured during the protests.

    Authorities had for months refused to provide casualty figures, rejecting tolls given by foreign media and human rights groups as “lies”.

    London-based rights group Amnesty International has put the number of deaths at 304, and a group of independent UN rights experts said in December that 400 could have been killed, including at least 12 children, based on unconfirmed reports.

    The United States has claimed that more than 1,000 were killed in the violence.

    Four lawyers representing the accused said they were “very hopeful” that the verdicts would be overturned.

    In a statement published by state news agency IRNA, they noted that “one of the judges at the supreme court had opposed the verdicts before”.

    Paknia also appeared optimistic, saying the process to overturn the verdicts “could take a few months”.

    The lawyer said the defence team planned to make a request to Iran’s chief justice if their current push does not succeed.

    Numerous calls had spread online since the verdict was announced, using the hashtag #DontExecute to call for a halt to executions in the country.

    Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said at the time that the verdict could still change over “extraordinary proceedings,” pointing to a legal clause that could trigger a retrial if deemed necessary by the chief justice.

    A group of UN rights experts had urged Iran on Thursday to overturn the sentences.

    “Today we join hundreds of thousands of Iranians on social media who condemned these death sentences,” said more than a dozen independent UN experts on issues including arbitrary executions, freedom of assembly and torture.

    France said it was “deeply shocked” by the verdicts and reaffirmed its “steadfast opposition to the death penalty”.

    US President Donald Trump also weighed in, tweeting that executing “these three people sends a terrible signal to the world and should not be done!”

    by Ahmad Parhizi

    https://www.macaubusiness.com/iran-h...er-protests-2/
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    February 24, 2021

    Stay of Execution for Father and Daughter on Death Row in Domestic Violence Case

    Iran Human Rights (IHR)

    Iran Human Rights (IHR); February 24, 2021: A father and daughter who had been transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions in Rasht Central Prison have been returned to their cells after receiving a stay of execution.

    Iran Human Rights previously reported that a father and daughter on death row for murder, had been transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions at Rasht Central Prison on February 20. Identified as Ebrahim and Maryam Karimi, they had already said their goodbyes in their last visit together when their execution was halted by judicial officials and they were returned to their cells.

    According to informed sources, Ebrahim and Maryam Karimi were arrested and sentence to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for the murder of her husband who was abusive and physically violent but would not consent to a divorce.

    An informed source told IHR: “This father and daughter have been in prison for the last 13 years, Maryam gave birth in prison and that baby is now 12 years old and considered one of the victim’s family. The reason for stopping the execution could be that the child is now of legal age.”

    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/4646/

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