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    Senior Iranian official summoned after criticising executions

    Shahindokht Molaverdi, vice president for women and family affairs, has been summoned to court after speaking about the executions in her country, AlKhaleejOnline.com reported yesterday. A spokesperson for the Iranian judiciary said that Molaverdi was summoned after speaking about the execution of all the men in the Sistan-Baluchistan province, near the country’s border with both Pakistan and Afghanistan. She said the men had been executed on charges of drug smuggling, but their death would lead their families to turn to contraband to survive.

    She made the remarks on 4 February during a discussion to support the families of those who were executed, Iranian Mehr news agency said. Judicial officials denied her claims and summoned her.

    Iranian Judicial official Mohamed Ali Hamidiyan in the Sistan-Baluchistan province said that Molaverdi’s claims against the judicial system were false and baseless.

    Ghulam Hussein Mohseni Ejeyie, spokesman of the Iranian judiciary, told journalists yesterday that Molaverdi had been summoned for questioning.

    Molaverdi denied making the comments.

    In a statement issued by her office earlier this month she wrote: “There was nothing to defame any province, spread false information against any authority or encourage external media to report regarding human rights issues that increase sanctions.”

    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/ne...ing-executions
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Iran: Call off execution of teenage prisoner

    The Iranian Resistance calls on international human rights organizations to take urgent action and demand the cancellation of the scheduled execution of Alireza Tajiki who was only 15 years old at the time of arrest.

    Repeated appeals by the family of Alireza Tajiki for revision of his case have been rejected by the mullahs' judiciary. The young prisoner has been in jail since 2012 and is going to be executed on Wednesday, August 3, 2016, in Adelabad Prison of Shiraz.

    Despite his age, Alireza Tajiki was denied access to a lawyer throughout the investigation process and was tortured under interrogation to make false confessions, a routine practice in Iranian jails.

    In a statement on the pending execution of Alireza Tajiki, Amnesty International wrote: “Imposing the death penalty on someone who was a child at the time of the crime flies in the face of international human rights law… It is particularly horrendous that the Iranian authorities are adamant to proceed with the execution when this case was marked by serious fair trial concerns and primarily relied on torture-tainted evidence… Iran’s bloodstained record of sending juvenile offenders to the gallows, routinely after grossly unfair trials, makes an absolute mockery of juvenile justice and shamelessly betrays the commitments Iran has made to children’s rights.”

    Fifty-five executions have been registered between July 11 and 27 in Iran. This is but a small part of the wave of executions taking place throughout the country. Many executions are carried out secretly and their news do not leak out.

    http://ncr-iran.org/en/ncri-statemen...enage-prisoner
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    At least 110 Executions will be Carried Out before 20 March 2017

    NCRI - According to the families of death-row prisoners who are detained in the central prison of Karaj, the prison authorities told them that the sentences of all those sentenced to death, about 110 to 120 people, will be implemented before the start of Iranian New Year on 20 March 2017 in the Central Prison of Karaj. The announcement caused panic and concerns among the prisoners and their families.

    In addition, reports indicate that the guards in central prison of Karaj have transferred the death-row prisoners, particularly the prisoners incarcerated in Ward 5, to different wards of the prison.

    The families say that prison official moved the death-row prisoners to different wards in order to prevent protests and rioting during their transfer for implementation of the sentences.

    It should be pointed out that prison officials strongly fear protests inside the prisons, in particular prisons where there are high number of death-row prisoners. Because of this fear and in order to prevent protests, they often enter the prison cells unannounced and forcefully transfer the prisoners to solitary confinement first while handcuffing and shackling and blindfolding them before taking them for implementation of the death sentence.

    http://ncr-iran.org/en/news/human-ri...-20-march-2017
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    Iran's court confirms death sentence on tycoon

    Tehran - Iran's Supreme Court has confirmed the death sentence against a well-known tycoon, the country's state-run news agency has reported.

    The Saturday report by IRNA said Babak Zanjani was sentenced to death over a number of charges including money laundering and disrupting the country's economy.

    On March 2016, a primary court sentenced Babak Zanjani and his two associates to death.

    The two defendants are facing charges of complicity in money laundering, forgery and fraud.

    IRNA also said Gholam-Reza Ansari, a senior official at the Supreme Court of Iran, announced that the Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty for the two other defendants involved in the embezzlement case, Hamid Fallah-Heravi and Mehdi Shamszadeh.

    Zanjani was arrested in 2013 as part of a crackdown on alleged corruption during the rule of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

    Iran's Oil Ministry says Zanjani owes more than $2.25bn for oil sales he made on behalf of Ahmadinejad's government.

    Zanjani, 41, is one of Iran's wealthiest businessmen with a fortune worth an estimated $14bn. He was arrested shortly after the election of President Hassan Rouhani.

    http://www.news24.com/World/News/ira...ycoon-20161203

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    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Disaster medicine scientist sentenced to death in Iran

    A researcher studying disaster medicine at two European institutes has been sentenced to death in Iran, apparently for security-related offenses. Iranian-born Ahmadreza Djalali, a scientist at the Research Center in Emergency and Disaster Medicine (CRIMEDIN) at the University of Eastern Piedmont in Novara, Italy, and the Free University Brussels (VUB), was arrested more than 9 months ago on still-unknown charges and has been imprisoned in Iran since then, most of the time in solitary confinement and without access to a lawyer.

    VUB announced the sentence in a statement on its website today. Colleagues, convinced of Djalali's innocence, say they are trying everything they can to prevent his execution. A petition set up by Hakan Altintas, a supporter in Turkey, asks the Iranian government to let Djalali come home; friends and colleagues are also raising awareness about his case on a Facebook page.

    "Ahmadreza is passionate about science," says Ives Hubloue, the head of VUB's Research Group on Emergency and Disaster Medicine. "He's not interested in politics. We don't believe he would do anything at all" to undermine the Iranian government.

    The petition says that Djalali, who has a wife and two children aged 14 and 5, has serious health issues after losing 18 kilograms during a hunger strike that he began on 26 December 2016.

    Djalali, 45, was arrested last April by the security forces of Iran’s Ministry of Information while en route from Tehran to the city of Karaj and was taken to Evin Prison in northwest Tehran, according to the petition. Worried that international publicity might make his situation worse, Djalali's family initially told his colleagues that he was in a coma after a car accident, Hubloue says. VUB and CRIMEDIN didn't learn that he had been imprisoned until October 2016, and even then, the family asked that his case not be publicized. That changed after the death sentence, which Hubloue says came on Wednesday.

    Djalali studied medicine at the University of Tabriz in Iran and obtained a Ph.D. in disaster medicine, the study of health care management during large-scale emergencies, at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He also earned a master's degree from a program in disaster medicine jointly organized by CRIMEDIN and VUB. Now, he's a professor in the same program and a scientist. His research focuses on how hospitals can best prepare for events with large numbers of casualties, including natural disasters and terrorist attacks, Hubloue says.

    Just what he has been accused of is unclear. "Ahmadreza has informed his family in Iran that he was forced to sign a confession, but the content is unknown," says the petition. "His family has been informed that the investigation relates to an issue of ‘national security.’ They have no evidence against him, but they are continuing to keep him."

    Hubloue says the charges are apparently related to Djalali's international contacts. The joint masters program draws students and professors from countries around the world, he says, including the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. "That could have something to do with it." But any contacts with colleagues from countries that Iran might see as adversarial would have been solely about the science of saving lives, he says. "We don't believe he did anything wrong," Hubloue says. "Let him go. Let him do his work. We need him."

    VUB's statement today echoed that sentiment. “A scientist performing important humanitarian work, gets sentenced without public trial and is looking at the death penalty,” Caroline Pauwels, the university's rector, said. “This is an outrageous violation of universal human rights, against which we should react decisively.”

    http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/...ced-death-iran
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    530 executions in 2016 in total:

    530 executions in 2016 in total:

    IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS (MAR 7, 2017): The 9th annual report of Iran Human Rights (IHR) on the death penalty gives an assessment and analysis of death penalty trends in 2016 in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

    The 9th annual report of the organization Iran Human Rights (IHR) on the death penalty in Iran shows that in 2016 at least 530 people were executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Although this number is significantly lower than the annual execution numbers in the past five years, Iran, with an average of more than one execution per day, remains in 2016 the country with the highest number of executions per capita.


    https://iranhr.net/en/articles/2814/

    http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/.../19508872.html

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    Public Executions Part of Life In Iran

    Within the borders of Iran, executions are not just carried out behind the doors of the prisons, but something that is part of the public sphere.

    Public executions are common, meant in part to be a deterrent for crimes and drug use.

    But the reality is that they have become a level of entertainment and are not the real deterrent that the regime claims.

    Children and families are often present at these executions, such as the one for a 21-year old inmate, who was publicly hanged in Babol, which is in northern Iran.

    The victim was only identified by his initials and had been found guilty of murder. His sentence was issued by the first criminal court of the province and was carried out on Saturday after being permitted the "Head of the Judiciary", according to the public prosecutor of Mazandaran.

    Another prisoner was hanged at dawn on Saturday, April 22. He was sentenced for drug related charges and Mehdi Mirzaei, the individual who was hanged, had been held in Parsilon Prison for the past three years.

    This is just another example of how these executions also are used to address the drug issues within their society.

    Other realities of public executions are that the individuals being executed could be prisoners sentenced when they were juveniles.

    One man was publicly hanged on April 22, in the city of Babol, according to the state-run Iranian news agencies.

    The state controlled YJC news agency reported that the 21-year old was identified as HR, and he was sentenced to the Qisas death penalty, which is a retribution penalty.

    Iran executes more individuals per capita than any other country in the world, according to Amnesty International's annual report.

    At least 197 individuals have been executed in Iran since the beginning of 2017.

    The first deputy of Iran's Chief Justice, Mohseni Ejeie, cited criticism regarding a number of executions of criminals in a press conference.

    He cited several examples of individuals who were executed for moving narcotics. "Or in Kerman, two people identified as Abdulhamid Hossein Zehi and Faramarz Kohkan, who were active in a drug trafficking ring, were hanged...or in Karaj a person was sentenced to death for carrying drugs...what else can we do with these people except execute them? At any rate, we will act according to our laws...and will not show leniency," said Ejeie.

    The result is that public executions will continue, despite the evidence that they are not a necessary deterrent and can have a significant impact on the mental and emotional well-being of society as a whole.

    https://themediaexpress.com/2017/04/...-life-in-iran/

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    Iran: Prisoner Hanged on Murder Charges

    Iran: Prisoner Hanged on Murder Charges

    Iran Human Rights (MAY 3 2017): On Sunday April 30, a prisoner was reportedly executed at Hamadan Central Prison on murder charges, and another prisoner was returned to his cell after his execution was temporarily halted.

    Close sources have identified the prisoner who was executed as Imran Askardasht, 30 years of age. "He was charged with murder in 2010," a close source tells Iran Human Rights.

    On the same day, a prisoner in Hamadan Central Prison, who is on death row on murder charges, had his execution sentence temporarily halted upon receiving consent from the plaintiffs on his case file. Close sources have identified this prisoner as Bakhtiar Leilinejad, 31 years of age.

    Imran and Bakhtiar were both transferred to solitary confinement on Saturday April 29 in preparation for their executions.

    https://iranhr.net/en/articles/2874/

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    Annual Report on the Death Penalty 2016

    IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS (APR 3, 2017): The 9th annual report by Iran Human Rights (IHR) on the death penalty in Iran shows that in 2016 at least 530 people were executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Although this number is significantly lower than the annual execution numbers from the past five years, Iran remained the country with the highest number of executions per capita.

    Commenting on the relative decrease in the 2016 execution figures, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, IHR’s Director and spokesperson, said: “We welcome any reduction in the use of the death penalty. But, unfortunately, there are no indications that the relative decrease in the number of the executions in 2016 was due to a change in the Islamic Republic of Iran’s policy. Our reports show that the Iranian authorities have executed at least 140 people in the first two months of 2017 alone.”

    In violation of its international obligations, Iran continued to execute juvenile offenders in 2016. According to our report, at least five juvenile offenders were executed in 2016 in Iran. Two of the juvenile offenders were reportedly sentenced to death for drug offences. Iranian authorities also carried out public executions and other barbaric punishments such as amputations, and blinding of eyes. According to IHR’s reports, 33 people were hanged in public spaces, in front of hundreds of citizens including children.

    https://iranhr.net/en/reports/18/

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    Iran: Two Men and a Woman Hanged on Drug Charges

    Iran: Two Men and a Woman Hanged on Drug Charges

    Two men and a woman were hanged on drug related charges at Rasht's central prison.


    Iran Human Rights (JULY 2 2017): On Saturday July 1, two men and one woman were reportedly hanged at Rasht's central prison on drug related charges. According to close sources, these three prisoners were transferred to solirary confinement on Thursday in preparation for their executions. Close sources have identified the two men as Sallaholdin Par and Jafar Saadanloo. The woman was identified as the wife of Jafar Saadanloo, but her name is not known at this time.

    "Sallaholdin was sentenced to death on the charge of trafficking and possessing three kilograms of crystal meth," an informed source told Iran Human Rights.

    Since the start of 2017, 133 individuals have been executed in Iran on drug related charges. Iranian parliament members had formerly requested from the Judiciary to stop drug related executions for at least five thousand prisoners pending further investigation. However, the request has not stopped the Judiciary from carrying out death sentences for prisoners with drug related charges.

    Iranian official sources, including the Judiciary and the media, have not announced these three executions.

    https://iranhr.net/en/articles/2943/

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