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    Iranian Officials to Salar Shadizadi’s Family: The Execution Will Be Carried Out on Saturday at 5am

    According to close sources, Iranian officials contacted Salar Shadizadi’s brother on Friday to notify him that the hanging will occur at 5am Tehran time at Lakan Prison and invited the family to be present at the execution scene (typically in a murder case in Iran, officials invite the murder victim’s family along with the family of the accused to watch the execution of the accused).

    Salar Shadizadi was arrested in 2006 when he was 15 years old for an alleged murder crime, he has been imprisoned since. In 2013 Iranian officials reportedly transferred Salar to Lakan Prison’s quarantine section and had planned to execute him, however, due to revisions that were made to the Islamic Penal Code, his execution was delayed.

    Iran is signatory to the United Nation’s International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the treaty states: “Sentence of death shall not be imposed for crimes committed by persons below eighteen years of age…”

    In two separate statements Amnesty International has called on Iranian officials to stop Salar’s execution. The Norwegian government and the German Human Rights Commissioner have both issued statements calling on Iranian officials to quash his death sentence.

    http://iranhr.net/2015/07/iranian-of...urday-morning/
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    Execution of Juvenile Offender Salar Shadizadi Postponed

    August 1, 2015: According to close sources, Salar Shadizadi’s execution has been postponed for 10 days.

    Salar, who was arrested at the age of 15 for an alleged murder, was scheduled to be executed early Saturday morning. The scheduled execution led to reactions from several Western governments as well as human rights organizations.

    Iran Human Rights welcomes the postponement of Salar’s execution and calls for the removal of his death sentence. “Salar’s death sentence has been postponed, but he can still be executed in 10 days. At least 160 juvenile offenders are on death row in Iran. The international community must maintain the pressure calling for Salar’s death sentence to be quashed. Removal of death sentences for juvenile offenders must be one of the main goals in dialogues between the international community and Iran.”

    http://iranhr.net/2015/08/execution-...adi-postponed/
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    Iran vows ‘divine vengeance’ on S/Arabia over Al Nimr execution

    Iran’s supreme leader said Sunday that Saudi Arabia will face “divine vengeance” for its execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent Shi’ite critic of Saudi Arabia’s ruling royal family.

    Iranian state television quoted Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying, “The unjustly spilled blood of this oppressed martyr will no doubt soon show its effect and divine vengeance will befall Saudi politicians.”

    The supreme leader said Nimr “neither encouraged people into armed action nor secretly conspired for plots, but the only thing he did was utter public criticism rising from his religious zeal.”

    Angry Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and a consulate in Mashhad, smashing furniture and setting fires at the embassy in the Iranian capital before being ejected by police.

    At least 40 protesters were arrested. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called the attacks on the diplomatic missions “totally unjustifiable,” even as he denounced Riyadh’s execution of the 56-year-old Shi’ite cleric.

    Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said in a statement Sunday Nimr’s death would lead to the “downfall” of Saudi Arabia’s monarchy. The Guard described Nimr’s execution as a “medieval act of savagery.”

    Nimr’s execution has caused international outrage and a serious escalation of diplomatic tensions in the region, with unrest predicted in Shi’ite-majority areas.

    http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/in...ffoER28iXKV.99
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    Executions in Iran in 2015 to hit over 1,000: UN

    Iran reportedly executes more individuals than any other country in the world.

    International human rights organizations foresee that death penalty cases Iran had executed by end of 2015 are to hit over 1,000 cases.

    This figure is twofold the capital punishment cases the Iranian authorities carried out in 2014. Reports showed that Iran had put to death over 753 people during the first six months of 2015, indicating that the average execution cases during such a period was three cases per day.

    According to such figures, the death penalty cases will cross 1,000 by end of 2015, based on reports released by the Amnesty International in July of 2015.

    Amnesty International in its report said that the Iranian authorities approve a certain number of death penalty cases, but the real number for those who have been already executed exceed the number declared by Iran.

    According to Ahmed Shaheed, the UN special rapporteur on Iran, in his annual report noted that Iran executed at least 694 people between January 1 and September 15, 2015, putting the execution rate for the first half of this year at its highest in about 25 years. Iran reportedly executes more individuals than any other country in the world.

    He said Iran executed 289 people in 2014, while Amnesty International said the true number was 743 people.

    In a report he tackled before the UN assembly meeting in November last year, Shaheed said that Iran continues to execute more individuals per capita than any other country in the world. Executions have been rising at an exponential rate since 2005 and peaked in 2014 at a shocking 753 executions. This spate reportedly accelerated at a further staggering rate during the first seven months of this year. Human rights organizations report that well over 800 executions have taken place this year, putting Iran on track to exceed 1,000 executions by the end of 2015.

    Other previous reports released by human rights organizations and media blamed the Iranian regime led by former president Ahmadi Nejad, following the protests staged by the green movement in Iran, for using excessive capital punishment and death penalty to threaten and terrorize opponents and suppress any uprising.

    The United Press quoted an Iranian university professor as saying that Iran's regime did not expect that the people would stage a protest after the elections. The aim of the execution Iranian authorities carry out is to terrorize its people and smother them.

    The United Nations, in December 1, 2014, condemned the Iranian infringements of human rights for using more capital punishment.

    International human rights organizations unfolded that Iran uses unconditional death penalty, especially in political cases. These ruling are often handed down by courts of law that lack independence and neutrality.

    http://www.khaleejtimes.com/region/m...t-over-1000-un
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    Northern Iran: 12 Prisoners Transferred to Solitary in Preparation for Execution

    (JAN 10 2016): 12 prisoners sentenced to death for murder were reportedly transferred from their cells in Rajai Shahr Prison to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions.

    According to close sources, the transfers occurred on Saturday January 9 and the executions are scheduled to be carried out in the coming days. IHR's sources have identified two of the prisoners as: Naser Karimnejad and Mehdi Kaheh. The human rights group, HRANA, has published some of the other names: Hossein Moeini, Reza Teymouri, Javad Sadeghi, Ebad Mohammadi, Mostafa Ejlali, Sajjad Nemati, and Anoush (his last name was not published).

    A source who asked to be anonymous tells Iran Human Rights: "Six of the prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement from Ward 1 of Rajai Shahr Prison and the other six were transferred from wards 6 and 2."

    "This is the third time that Mehdi Kaheh has been transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for his execution. The other times his execution was delayed after the plaintiffs on his case file granted him respite so he may have some time to collect the blood money needed to halt his execution. But, the Kaheh family failed to obtain the blood money and therefore did not receive consent by the plaintiffs to halt Mehdi's execution," says the source.

    Last week at Rajai Shahr Prison, at least five prisoners were reported executed for murder charges.

    http://iranhr.net/en/articles/2422/
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    4 Americans released from Iranian prison, including journalist Jason Rezaian

    Three of the four Americans released from Tehran's Evin Prison on Saturday as part of an exchange were all men with dual citizenship who traveled to Iran for deeply personal reasons.

    Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, 32, a former U.S. Marine from Flint, Michigan, was visiting an ailing grandmother. Saeed Abedini, 35, an evangelical pastor from Boise, Idaho, was working on building an orphanage with his wife. And Jason Rezaian, 39, a Washington Post reporter raised in Marin County, California, was writing about the rapid changes in his father's homeland, including a surprising new enthusiasm for baseball.

    The stories of their imprisonment - which collectively spanned about nine years and nine months - captured the public's attention around the world and created tremendous outrage against Iran.

    Little is known about the fourth American, Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari, whose detention had not been previously publicized. Iranian state television described him as a businessman.

    On Saturday, the men's families expressed their gratitude to the Obama administration for working on the deal, but their statements appeared to be tempered by anxiety and mistrust of the Iranian government.

    "We thank everyone for your thoughts during this time," Hekmati's family said. But, they cautioned, "There are still many unknowns. At this point, we are hoping and praying for Amir's long-awaited return."

    Hekmati is the longest-held American prisoner confirmed to have been held by Iran.

    Arrested in August 2011, he was accused of being a CIA spy. Both he and the U.S. government have denied the charges and maintained his innocence. He was initially convicted of espionage and sentenced to death, but a higher court overturned that ruling. He was then charged with "cooperating with hostile governments" and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

    Hekmati's family has accused Iran of subjecting him to physical and mental torture and solitary confinement in a tiny cell. In December he launched a hunger strike to protest his captivity and lost weight and was having trouble breathing. Earlier this month, he was allowed to receive medical treatment at a hospital outside the prison for swelling in his neck and face - a concession that was taken as a sign that he might be considered for release.

    In a letter dictated to his mother over the phone while in prison, Hekmati described himself as a geopolitical pawn and vowed never to return to Iran.

    "It has become very clear to me that those responsible view Iranian Americans not as citizens or even human beings but as bargaining chips and tools for propaganda," he said.

    Abedini, a convert from Islam to Christianity, was detained in July 2012 for organizing home churches. He was sentenced to eight years in prison. His case was the most high-profile religious persecution for Christians in recent years, regularly mentioned by evangelical pastors in pulpits across the country.

    His wife, Naghmeh Abedini, who grew up in Boise and lives there with the couple's two children - Rebekka, 9, and Jacob, 7 - said Saturday that the deal "has been an answer to prayer."

    In an interview, she recounted how she woke her two children at 7:30 a.m. to tell them of the news that their father had been released.

    "They were shocked," she said. "You can probably hear them now, jumping up and down, asking 'When are we going to see him?' It's been a time of rejoicing."

    Naghmeh Abedini has been a high-profile advocate for her husband, posting updates on social media and speaking at Christian conferences across the country.

    Born and raised in Iran, Abedini became a U.S. citizen in 2010 but returned to Iran regularly. His wife said that he had been beaten and interrogated when he was first imprisoned and suffered internal bleeding but she does not know his current physical condition. She said that once he leaves Iranian soil, they will discuss whether she will fly and meet him somewhere or if they will meet when he returns to the United States.

    Naghmeh Abedini said it's unclear whether her husband will continue to be a pastor, though it's always been "his heart."

    "I think he would have to deal with a lot of issues," she said. "There will need to be a time of healing for him and his family."

    A fifth American, identified as Matt Trevithick, was also released Saturday but was not part of the exchange. Trevithick's parents said in a statement that he had been held for 40 days in Evin Prison. They did not describe any formal charges and referred to his captivity as a "detention."

    Reached by phone, his sister said she wasn't able to offer any more comments beyond that the family is "profoundly grateful to all those who worked for his release and are happy for all the families whose loved ones are also heading home."

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...116-story.html
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    Ahwazi: Iran Carrying Out Wave of Executions

    The human rights situation has been worsening quickly in Iran. More than 2,000 people have been hung during Hassan Rouhani’s tenure as President of the regime. This is the biggest scale of executions in the past 25 years. These mass executions will be added to the black pages of the Iranian regime's history of human rights violations since the Iranian revolution in 1979. The large-scale execution of political and ideological prisoners has resulted in Iran being named one of the top countries committing executions per capita during the past few years.

    Unlocked from its sanction-based constrictions, Iran is now fully free to underwrite terror and carry out more executions against Ahwazi Arab and throughout the country. Five Ahwazi are facing imminent execution in public. The names of these Ahwazi Arab prisoners are Qais Obeidawi, Hamood Obeidawi, Mohammad Helfi, Mehdi Moarabi and Mehdi Sayahi.

    The five men were condemned following a trial filled with heinous violations of the judiciary process by the Revolutionary Court of mullahs in Iran. These prisoners were arrested in April 2015 and on Tuesday, June 16, 2015, were brought in front of television cameras of Press TV by the Ministry of Information to make public confessions about their fictional crimes. Farhad Afsharnya, the regime’s supposed Chief Justice for the Al-Ahwaz region said the execution of the five Arabs was confirmed, it will be ratified by the court and execution will be carried out in public.

    These Ahwazi activists were only concerned with advancing cultural and social awareness for the cause of Ahwaz people and were not connected to an armed struggle against the state. The Iranian regime has stepped up its ferocious crackdown against Ahwazis and all none-Persian activists after the tension between Iran and its neighbours heightened as a result of Iran’s involvement in Middle Eastern wars, such as in Syria and Yemen. Similar sentences which have been issued in closed rather than public court proceedings, give substantial reason to conclude that the Iranian judicial system only pays lip service to any idea of due process. Furthermore, it becomes apparent that human rights are overlooked by any president while the judicial system is not independent. These executions might occur anytime soon after the Iranian parliamentary election at the end of February [2016].

    The Iranian regime’s massive hypocrisy in condemning Saudi Arabia’s questionable human rights record is breathtaking. Any use of the term “moderate” in connection with Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani is ludicrous hyperbole; he is simply the president elected from the list of candidates chosen for the position by the Guardian Council, consisting of 12 Islamic theologians and jurists, according to the Iranian Constitution.

    Under the constitution, secular candidates or those who fail to embrace the Islamic Republic’s theocratic hardline Shiite values are nominally capable of being selected but, in reality, are not.

    The parliament or Masjid has little power over the regime’s religious courts to stop or even slow down the rate of executions, with the courts routinely issuing verdicts without even hearing evidence or investigating the charges against accused individuals as might be expected under legal systems elsewhere in the world.

    One example of the Iranian regime’s legal system is the common charge of muharebeh or ‘enmity to God,’ routinely used against human rights activists and dissidents, which invariably receive the death penalty, often administered in public by stoning or mass hangings by cranes. Many of those hanged take up to 20 minutes to die slowly and painfully of strangulation. The victims’ bodies are left for some time before being removed as a way of intimidating the public into silence.

    Since Hassan Rouhani took office in 2013, over 2,000 Iranians, including women, many of them Ahwazi Arabs, Kurdish and Baluchi Sunnis, have been executed, almost all after ludicrous kangaroo trials in which they were unrepresented and not allowed to submit any evidence in their defence. Recently, six of 33 Sunni men currently on death row were publicly executed in a mass hanging, while another woman was sentenced to death by stoning. This is the “moderate” Iranian regime.

    This report sheds light on this failure of the Iranian regime to respect the rights of the Ahwazi Arab people in Al-Ahwaz, the South and South-Western part of Iran.

    Conducted behind closed doors, before biased judges and in the absence of legal representation, the unfair trials of Arabs in the Al-Ahwaz region are part of a long-standing persecution of this oppressed people in Iran.

    Despite the fact that this recurring miscarriage of justice is in flagrant violation of the Islamic Republic's constitution, Iran's jails are filled with Ahwazi political prisoners who face brutal punishments, a lifetime in prison or execution.

    Over the past decade, hundreds of Ahwazi Arab prisoners ranging from poets, teachers to bloggers and human rights activists have been executed on trumped up charges in kangaroo courts.

    Rather than finding reasonable evidence for the commission of a crime, judges generally rely on confessions, which have been drawn out from the accused through physical torture and psychological duress. Meanwhile, friends and relatives of the accused are kept in the dark, often not informed of where their loved one has been imprisoned, or even buried.

    As we follow carefully the history of Ahwazi Arab people of repression, violence and capital punishment, we see that they have a long record of systematic crackdown over decades.

    Meanwhile, the execution of Ahwazi intellectuals historically has inflicted an irreversible blow to the liberty movement of this occupied nation that has been struggling to achieve its fundamental rights of self-determination for years.

    The executions of early leaders of the Ahwaz liberation movement in 1963, the oppressive policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran against Ahwazi people in every phases of their life, the tragic bloody massacre of Mohammareh in 1979, and the severe crackdown of popular uprising in 2005 provide ample evidence that intellectuals, Ahwazi public figures, and the political class of this nation repeatedly have been targeted for imprisonment, repression and execution.

    The largest popular uprising of Ahwazi people broke out on 9 April 2005 when people from several cities turned out into the streets and protested against the distribution of a circular (petition) attributed to Mohammad Ali Abtahi, former Vice President for Parliamentary and Legal Affairs of President Mohammad Ali Khatami.

    The latter events of popular uprising in April 2005 in Ahwaz, which was a non-violent demonstration against the wicked policy of the central government focusing on altering the demography of Ahwazi Arab people, reminded the nation of the catastrophic massacre when so many people were killed in the course of the widespread peaceful demonstration, so many people massacred in the street by Iranian squad riot forces.

    At the time, many civil and cultural activists were executed and many clean-handed and innocent young protesters were killed under torture, their bodies discovered in Karoon River. These bodies were wrapped up in plastic and their hands were tied up behind their backs with rope. After the massacre, terrible panic and a suffocating climate dominated the region and subsequently, the executions of highly educated, intellectuals, and civil and political activists started again.

    Notably, in 2005, dozens of teachers and cultural activists were arrested and after unfair trials and without access to legal representation, they were charged with vague charges, such as acting against the national security, enmity with God, corrupting the earth and blasphemy, and then condemned to execution or life imprisonment. As an example, Mr. Zamell Bawi, who was studying law at senior semester at university and was waiting for his graduation ceremony, was arrested by intelligence security and under physical and psychological tortures was forced to incriminate himself falsely.

    After a show trial in a revolutionary court in Ahwaz he was sentenced to death and his verdict confirmed by the higher tribunal in Tehran. Additionally, six immediate members of his family who were mostly students and cultural activists, were sentenced to life imprisonment and exiled to far- away prisons outside Ahwaz.

    In 2005, Ali Ouda Afravi , Mehdi Hantoush Navaseri, in 2006, Ali Matori, Malik al-Tamimi, Abdullah Soleimani (Kaabi), Abdul Amir Faraj Allah, Mohammad Lazem Kaab, Khalaf DhrabKhazraei , Ali Reza Asakereh, in 2007, Qasem Salamat, Majed Albughbish, Razi Zargani, Raisan Sawari, Abdolreza Hantoush Navaseri, Muhammed Ali Sawari, Jaafar Sawari, in 2008, Hussein Asakereh, Abdul Hussein Al-Hareibi, Ahmad Meramzy, Zamell Bawi, and in 2009, Khalil Kaabi and Said Sadon were sentenced to death on false charges of "enmity against God", and after months of torture in solitary confinement in secret prisons were secretly hanged. It is noteworthy that all these executed people were the educated and the political and cultural activists of the Ahwaz nation and the bodies of these people had not been handed over to their families.

    Hashem Shabani, an Ahwazi Arab poet and human rights activist was executed for being an “enemy of God” and threatening national security. In reality, he spoke about the brutal treatment of Ahwazi Arabs, while he was campaigning for the Ahwazi people who are oppressed, mocked and treated as third citizens by Iranians. We have to keep in mind that if somebody is an Arab, then they are not the same as being an Iranian Persian because of their ethnic background. There is a cultural bias against Ahwazi Arabs in the mainstream Persian population.

    In 2011, the brothers Heydariyan (3 people) along with their friend, Ali Sharifi, were arrested in the wake of civil protests in Ahwaz. According to credible reports, they were charged with enmity with God and were sentenced to death after confessing under torture. They were denied a fair trial and judicial proceedings and in 2012 were hanged in secret. Ali Chbyshat and Khalid Mousavi were arrested in 2011 and were kept for seven months in solitary confinement by the Intelligence Service without access to lawyers and then convicted to death penalty and hanged in secret.

    Because of the severe repression, censorship, lack of freedom of the press and the judicial system's lack of transparency and lack of coverage for any of the non-Persian prisoners, there is no possible way to give exact figures of all the death sentences among non-Persian ethnic groups in Iran. Iran not only has the world's highest execution rates but the executions have mostly been carried out against ethnic groups such as Ahwazis, Kurds and Baluchis who are struggling to achieve their national and linguistic identity and self-determination rights.

    There are thousands of underage prisoners who have been executed in Iran. According to the International Covenants on Human Rights, the death penalty is forbidden for people who commit crimes while younger than eighteen years of age. “Waging war against God” is one of the leading charges used by the Iranian regime to justify the inhuman executions of ethnic groups in Iran.

    Since the 1980s, the clerical regime used it as a weapon to suppress many political and ideological opponents. Most executions of prisoners who were accused of "enmity against God" belong to non-Persian ethnic nationalities in Iran, mostly Ahwazi Arab, Baluch, and Kurdish activists.

    The regime defies international law by holding all the bodies of the executed prisoners. Hundreds of Ahwazi prisoners’ bodies have been withheld by the Iranian authorities. Many human rights organisations called on the regime to hand over the bodies of the executed political prisoners to their anguished families.

    This is a part of the regime’s collective punishment policy against the Ahwazi Arab people. Iran has refused to deliver the bodies of hundreds of Ahwazis executed since 2005 to date under the pretext that their families will hold funerals for them, which will serve as a catalyst for Ahwazi uprising. This reflects the racism of the Iranian regime against Ahwazi Arabs.

    Finally, one must question the purpose of the regime behind the high number of executions and the human tragedies. In a country where most of fraud and administrative and financial corruption are committed by regime officials, while the oppressed nations are living in extreme poverty, why is it that these officials have not been prosecuted or executed?

    It can be concluded that the executions of non-Persian prisoners have political and security aspects in a bid of the ruling regime in Iran to expand its domination and control over the occupied and oppressed nations of Ahwaz, Kurdistan, Baluchistan and other peoples in the country.

    When the Iranian regime learned that its agenda has been failed to put out the peaceful resistance of Ahwazi people, the Iranian authorities with the help of their deeply flawed criminal justice system began to prioritize the death penalty of Ahwazi prisoners, amid warnings from human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International.

    Since the Ahwazi uprising, the death sentences and executions are being imposed and carried out on Ahwazi prisoners even more extensively, after procedures that violate human rights standards.

    Iranian television stations like Press TV continue to broadcast self-incriminating testimonies of Ahwazi detainees even before the opening of a trial, undermining the fundamental rights of defendants to be considered innocent until proven guilty.

    Is it just Ahwazi political prisoners who must be executed for using their pens, the only weapons they raised in the struggle for the rights of the Ahwazi people? Why is it a crime in the Iranian state to write about the lack of basic rights to a decent existence for the Ahwazi people who live below the poverty line, while their land is teeming with natural resources such as oil, natural gas, mining stone and running water? All remain inaccessible to the people of Ahwaz, including the right to clean drinking water.

    Where is the justice when the Ahwaz region, the so-called heart of Iran's economy, is considered one of the poorest regions in Iran?

    From 2003 to date, the climate in Ahwaz has dramatically deteriorated due to air pollution caused by Iran's industrial activities in Ahwaz. Ahwaz is one of the most polluted areas in Iran and the larger Middle East, and it is an area where there is a visible increase in the number of people dying from pollution-related diseases.

    One has only to visit the out-patient department in hospitals in the Ahwaz to find them filled with patients suffering from cancer and other pollution-related chronic lung diseases. If our political prisoners have established campaigns, it is only because they could not close their eyes and remain silent regarding the horrific sufferings of their people.

    The world is learning slowly that Ahwazi political prisoners are quickly sentenced to death after unjust show-trials where they are charged with "enmity against God", or that they post a risk to national security, or militant activities and secession. The vast majority of Iranians, the pro-Iranian Mullah regime who view themselves as human rights advocates who claim to be distraught over the rivers of blood flowing in Syria and other Arab nations are weeping crocodile tears if they’re honest, having remained silent for decades on the plight of the Ahwazi Arab peoples and other brutally oppressed ethnic groups in Iran who are murderously subjugated and brutalised solely for claiming their lawful rights.

    Iran, by dominating on the wealth of this nation, has increasingly plundered it and as a result of it, the villages and towns of Al-Ahwaz were destroyed day by day. The chauvinist policies of Iranian governments have had to try to completely deny the existence of Ahwazis. In return, when Ahwazis protest at the ongoing oppression, they will be dealt with live fire or arrest and then execution. It seems that the execution sentence is Iran’s last resort to liquidating Ahwazi prisoners.

    http://unpo.org/article/18927
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    Iranian heavy metal band faces possible death penalty for playing music?

    Members of an Iranian heavy metal band are reportedly facing possible execution for playing music the government says is blasphemous.

    Two musicians in the band Confess -- vocalist/guitarist Nikan Siyanor Khosravi, 23, and DJ Khosravi Arash “Chemical” Ilkhani, 21 -- were arrested in their hometown of Tehran on November 10, 2015by the Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, according to the music blog Loudwire.

    Citing a letter from a friend of the band posted on the Canadian music site Metal Nation Radio, it says the two were charged with blasphemy, advertising against the system, forming and operating an underground record label that promotes the satanic metal/rock style of music, writing religious, atheistic, political and anarchistic lyrics, and interviewing with radio stations based in other nations.

    The letter said the pair had been held in Iran’s notorious Evin prison for nearly two months in solitary confinement, were only released on Feb. 5 after they paid 1,000,000,000 Rial (about $30,000), and now await trial.

    Trev McKendry, who posted the anonymous letter on Metal Nation Radio, posted a video on YouTube telling Confess that the global heavy metal community is behind them.

    "I've taken [spreading the word] upon myself because my source, who is close to the band, reached out to me and specifically said that they asked me to help,” McKendry said in the video.

    Nearly all forms of rock music are illegal in Iran and musicians who break the law are often arrested, forced to pay heavy fines, and receive public floggings. But the penalties Confess could face seem to be even more severe.

    The executive director of Washington, DC-based human rights organization Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation, Roya Boroumand, said sources told her the two could indeed be charged with apostasy due the content of songs such as “I'm Your God Now” and “Teh-Hell-Ran.”

    “They could be facing some serious charges,” Boroumand told FOX411.

    A rep for Human Rights Watch explained that if the musicians are convicted of “insulting sacred beliefs,” they face one to five years in prison, and if they are convicted of “insulting the prophet,” they could receive the death penalty. Executions in Iran are often carried out in public squares, with the condemned hanged from cranes.

    Such harsh consequences force most rockers in Iran to keep their music under the radar.

    “If you are discreet about your music, the Revolutionary Guard may leave you alone. They say, ‘Do your thing underground. Don’t make a lot of noise and we won’t come after you,” Boroumand told FOX411. “But if a group of musicians start publicly promoting their music, the Guard sees it as leading the youth to not be in control, and then they want to teach a lesson and set an example.”

    Musicians are also supporting Confess using the social media hashtag #freeconfess, and Otep Shamaya, the singer for Los Angeles-based metal group OTEP, even started a change.org petition for the band because she believes every artist has the right to free expression, no matter where they live.

    “It’s infuriating to know that this band was in prison and could face death just for making an art form and speaking their own truth,” Shamaya told FOX411. “What is also important here is that not everyone in Iran is an extremist and that there are many there who still value self-expression. They [Confess] took a chance to make art that they felt compelled to do.”

    So far, Shamaya's petition has gotten over 8,000 signatures.

    Rock music has been forbidden in Iran since the Islamic revolution of 1979. The ban inspired the British punk band The Clash to write the 1982 hit “Rock the Casbah.”

    Concerts in Iran are now are heavily restricted. Rock bands might be able to get permission from the government to perform live on stage, but their music must be instrumental, and if there are lyrics, they must be in Persian and approved by the Ministry of Culture.

    “The bands which exist in Iran have no possibility to be in public,” Fateme Gosheh, an Iranian documentarian who now lives in Sweden, told FOX411. “But these young people do not give up. You can find their music everywhere, but like drugs, it is forbidden.”

    http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...playing-music/
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    Iran billionaire Babak Zanjani sentenced to death

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    Billionaire Iranian businessman Babak Zanjani has been sentenced to death for corruption, justice officials say.

    He was arrested in December 2013 after accusations that he withheld billions in oil revenue channelled through his companies. He denies the allegations.

    Zanjani, 42, was convicted of fraud and economic crimes, a judiciary spokesperson said at a press briefing.

    One of Iran's richest men, Zanjani was blacklisted by the US and EU for helping Iran evade oil sanctions.

    Two others were sentenced to death along with him and all were ordered to repay embezzled funds. The ruling can be appealed.

    Zanjani had acknowledged using a web of companies in the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and Malaysia to sell millions of barrels of Iranian oil on behalf of the government since 2010.

    Before his arrest, Zanjani had argued that international sanctions were preventing him from handing over $1.2bn still owed to the government.

    But at his recent trial, prosecutors said he still owed the government more than $2.7bn in oil revenue.

    He was taken into custody a day after President Hassan Rouhani ordered his government to fight "financial corruption", particularly "privileged figures" who had "taken advantage of economic sanctions" under the previous government.

    'Corrupt parasites'

    The trial, unusually, was held in public, AFP news agency reports.

    In a 2013 interview with the BBC, Zanjani played down his political connections in Iran, saying: "I don't do anything political, I just do business."

    Zanjani has said he is worth about some $13.5bn.

    For years things worked well for the businessman who appeared in photos with some high-ranking officials and was not shy of showing off his wealth, such as private jets and luxury cars, Amir Azimi of BBC Persian reports.

    But when the local media started to report on his wealth, he came under the spotlight and under suspicion.

    The death sentence could have wider implications for Iran's economy, where many were involved in finding ways to avoid the sanctions, our analyst adds.

    International sanctions on Iran were lifted in January after a watchdog confirmed it had complied with a deal designed to prevent it developing nuclear weapons.

    Oil minister Bijan Zanganeh has urged foreign investors to avoid middlemen, whom he describes as "corrupt parasites".

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35739377
    "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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    In Iran, there have been 977 executions in 2015, according to Amnesty International:
    http://www.heute.de/amnesy-kritisier...-42984064.html

    Greetings, bernhard

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