Gunman shoots dead two judges in Iran’s capital tied to 1988 mass executions
2 months, 1 week ago

Gunman shoots dead two judges in Iran’s capital tied to 1988 mass executions

The Hindu  

A man fatally shot two prominent hard-line judges in Iran's capital on Saturday, officials said, both of whom allegedly took part in the mass execution of dissidents in 1988. “According to initial investigations, the person in question did not have a case in the Supreme Court nor was he a client of the branches of the court,” the judiciary's Mizan news agency said. After Iran’s then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini accepted a U.N.-brokered ceasefire, members of the exiled Iranian opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or MEK, heavily armed by Saddam Hussein, stormed across the Iranian border in a surprise attack. While Mogheiseh never addressed the accusation he took part in the 1988 “death commissions,” Razini gave a 2017 interview published by Iran's Shargh newspaper in which he defended the panels as “fair and completely in accordance with the law.” “Our friends and I who are among the 20 judges in the country, we did our best to ensure the security of that time and the years after and from then, we guaranteed that the hypocrites could never become powerful in this country,” he reportedly said.

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Extraordinary photo of brave Iranian smiling broadly with a noose round his neck moments before his execution for killing a notorious 'hanging judge' resurfaces after guard shot dead two supreme court
2 months ago

Extraordinary photo of brave Iranian smiling broadly with a noose round his neck moments before his execution for killing a notorious 'hanging judge' resurfaces after guard shot dead two supreme court

Daily Mail  

An incredible image of a brave Iranian smiling with a noose around his neck moments before being hanged has resurfaced after two supreme court justices were shot dead. The photograph of smiling Majid Kavousifar, 28, captures the man's final moments before execution after he and his nephew Hossein, were convicted of the murder of Judge Masoud Ahmadi Moghaddasi The brave …

Two Iranian Supreme Court judges shot dead in Tehran
2 months, 1 week ago

Two Iranian Supreme Court judges shot dead in Tehran

Firstpost  

Judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir told state television that the two judges had long been involved in ”national security cases, including espionage and terrorism”. Two senior Iranian Supreme Court judges involved in handling espionage and terrorism cases were shot dead in the capital Tehran on Saturday, Iran’s judiciary said. While the motive for the assassination was still unclear, judiciary spokesperson Asghar …

Gunman shoots dead 2 judges in Iran’s capital tied to 1988 mass executions
2 months, 1 week ago

Gunman shoots dead 2 judges in Iran’s capital tied to 1988 mass executions

Associated Press  

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A man fatally shot two prominent hard-line judges in Iran’s capital Saturday, officials said, both of whom allegedly took part in the mass execution of dissidents in 1988. “According to initial investigations, the person in question did not have a case in the Supreme Court nor was he a client of the branches of the …

Gunman shoots hardline judges 'notorious for sentencing journalists, internet users' in Tehran
2 months, 1 week ago

Gunman shoots hardline judges 'notorious for sentencing journalists, internet users' in Tehran

India TV News  

A gunman on Saturday shot down two prominent judges in Tehran, who were allegedly involved in the mass execution of dissidents in 1988, officials said. The two hard-line judges, Mohammad Mogheiseh and Ali Razini, were fatally shot dead with no group claiming responsibility for the shooting yet. Attack took place at Palace of Justice in Tehran The attack took place …

Two Iran Supreme Court judges killed in Tehran shooting attack
2 months, 1 week ago

Two Iran Supreme Court judges killed in Tehran shooting attack

Al Jazeera  

Assailant kills himself after shooting dead senior justices inside a Supreme Court building in the capital Tehran. Two senior Iranian justices have been killed in a shooting attack in the Supreme Court in the capital Tehran, according to the judiciary and state media. Judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir told Iranian state television that “a person armed with a handgun entered the …

Iran executes man who carried out bizarre violent act on 59 women on Tehran's streets
3 months, 1 week ago

Iran executes man who carried out bizarre violent act on 59 women on Tehran's streets

Daily Mail  

Iran has executed a man convicted of 'corruption of earth' for attacking dozens of women on the capital's streets, its judiciary said today. Rastgooei Kandolaj attacked at least 59 women using an awl, a woodworking tool, causing injuries and sowing 'terror in Tehran', the judiciary's Mizen Online news website announced. Kandolaj was found to have stabbed dozens of women with …

Iran executes in public a serial rapist convicted in dozens of cases
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4 months, 1 week ago

Iran executes in public a serial rapist convicted in dozens of cases

Associated Press  

TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian man convicted of raping dozens of women over the past two decades has been executed in public, the country’s state media reported on Wednesday. The state-owned IRAN newspaper said Mohammad Ali Salamat was hanged after Iran’s Supreme Court confirmed his death sentence earlier in October. He was arrested in January in what was the biggest …

Iran publicly hangs a man convicted of murder
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Iran publicly hangs a man convicted of murder

Associated Press  

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Authorities in central Iran on Monday publicly hanged a man who was convicted in the shooting death of a lawyer, the country’s official judicial news agency said. It was the first public hanging of the year in Iran, according to the Oslo-based Iran Human Rights, which tracks executions in the country. Iran typically carries out …

Guards, female inmates clash at Iran Evin prison: Nobel winner’s family
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Guards, female inmates clash at Iran Evin prison: Nobel winner’s family

The Hindu  

“Guards beat female inmates in clashes that erupted at Tehran’s Evin prison following a spate of executions,” the family of jailed Nobel peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi said, raising new concerns about her health. “The protest by prisoners against the execution of Reza Rasaei led to a violent crackdown by prison guards and security agents,” Mohammadi’s family said in a …

Sweden frees an Iranian man convicted over 1988 mass executions in exchange for 2 men held by Iran
9 months, 1 week ago

Sweden frees an Iranian man convicted over 1988 mass executions in exchange for 2 men held by Iran

Associated Press  

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran and Sweden carried out a prisoner swap Saturday that saw Tehran release a European Union diplomat and another man in exchange for an Iranian convicted in Stockholm of committing war crimes over his part in 1988 mass executions in the Islamic Republic. While Iranian state television claimed without evidence that Nouri had been “illegally …

Iran hangs two women as surge in executions intensifies: NGO
10 months, 1 week ago

Iran hangs two women as surge in executions intensifies: NGO

The Hindu  

Iran on Saturday hanged at least seven people, including two women, while a member of its Jewish minority is at imminent risk of execution as the Islamic republic further intensified its use of capital punishment, an NGO said. Parvin Mousavi, 53, a mother of two grown-up children, was hanged in Urmia prison in northwestern Iran along with five men convicted …

Executions in Iran hit 8-year high in 2023
1 year ago

Executions in Iran hit 8-year high in 2023

Al Jazeera  

Use of the death penalty surged by 43 percent following huge protests prompted by Mahsa Amini’s death. The report, released on Tuesday by Norway-based Iran Human Rights and Paris-based Together Against the Death Penalty, suggests that the 43 percent spike in the use of capital punishment last year came in reaction to nationwide protests prompted by the death in police …

Iran man kills 12 relatives in shooting spree: Report
1 year, 1 month ago

Iran man kills 12 relatives in shooting spree: Report

Hindustan Times  

A 30-year-old man gunned down 12 of his relatives Saturday in a remote rural area in southeast Iran, the deadliest shooting reported in decades. Head of the justice department of the province of Kerman, Ebrahim Hamidi, told the semiofficial ISNA news agency the gunman opened fire on his father, brother and other relatives early morning in a village because of …

Iran executes another prisoner detained during nationwide protests that erupted in 2022
1 year, 2 months ago

Iran executes another prisoner detained during nationwide protests that erupted in 2022

Associated Press  

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran on Tuesday hanged another prisoner over crimes committed during nationwide protests that erupted in 2022 following the death of a young woman detained for improperly wearing her headscarf. He said such an execution could be characterized as “murder.” The monthslong unrest followed the Sept. 16, 2022 death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old …

Iran executes 2022 protester for murder
1 year, 2 months ago

Iran executes 2022 protester for murder

Al Jazeera  

Human rights advocates criticise Mohammad Ghobadlou’s conviction, saying he did not get a fair trial. “After being upheld by the Supreme Court, the death penalty against defendant Mohammad Ghobadlou has been implemented early this morning,” Mizan reported. ‘Unfair sham trials’ However, human rights group Amnesty International said the 22-year-old’s right to a fair trial was violated, and his bipolar condition …

Iran's Supreme Court Reverses Death Sentence in Mahsa Amini Protests Case
1 year, 7 months ago

Iran's Supreme Court Reverses Death Sentence in Mahsa Amini Protests Case

News 18  

Iran’s Supreme Court has quashed a death sentence handed down to a 23-year-old man convicted of killing a policeman during nationwide protests last year, local media reported Wednesday. Iran issued a slew of death sentences during its crackdown on the protests sparked by the September death of Iranian-Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini while in morality police custody. Mohammad Ghobadlou was sentenced …

Iran hangs 2 men over shrine attack. Tehran's executions in 2023 rise to…
1 year, 8 months ago

Iran hangs 2 men over shrine attack. Tehran's executions in 2023 rise to…

Hindustan Times  

Iran executed two men over an attack on a shrine that killed at least 13 people in October. During the trial the men said that they had been in contact with the Islamic State in Afghanistan and helped organise the attack on the Shah Cheragh shrine in Shiraz. Iran hanged at least 354 people in the first six months of …

Iran executes three men linked to anti-hijab protests for ‘war against God’
1 year, 10 months ago

Iran executes three men linked to anti-hijab protests for ‘war against God’

Hindustan Times  

Authorities in Iran executed three men convicted of violence against the country's security forces during protests triggered after the custodial death of Mahsa Amini's death last year, the judiciary said. Majid Kazemi, Saleh Mirhashemi and Saeed Yaghoubi were convicted of "moharebeh", or "war against God", for killing three members of the security forces, the judiciary's Mizan Online news website noted. …

Iran executes 3 men over violence during last year’s anti-government protests
1 year, 10 months ago

Iran executes 3 men over violence during last year’s anti-government protests

LA Times  

Saleh Mirhashemi was one of three men executed in Iran on Friday for their alleged role in deadly violence during anti-government protests. Iran on Friday executed three men accused of deadly violence during last year’s anti-government protests, despite objections from human rights groups. “The prosecution relied on forced ‘confessions,’ and the indictment was riddled with irregularities that reveal this was …

Iran Executes Two Men Convicted Over Desecrating Koran: Report
1 year, 10 months ago

Iran Executes Two Men Convicted Over Desecrating Koran: Report

News 18  

Iran on Monday executed two people convicted over desecrating the Koran and insulting the Prophet Mohammad, the judiciary said. Sadrollah Fazeli Zarei and Youssef Mehrdad were hanged in the morning, having previously been convicted over “insulting Prophet Mohammad and… burning the Koran”, the judiciary’s Mizan Online website reported. Iran executes more people yearly than any other nation except China, according …

Iran hangs two men in rare blasphemy case as executions surge
1 year, 10 months ago

Iran hangs two men in rare blasphemy case as executions surge

LA Times  

Iran hanged two men Monday convicted of blasphemy, authorities said, carrying out rare death sentences for the crime as executions surge across the Islamic Republic following months of unrest. Iran remains one of the world’s top executioners, having put to death at least 203 prisoners since the start of this year alone, according to the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights. …

Executions surge by 75pc in Iran after anti-government protests
1 year, 11 months ago

Executions surge by 75pc in Iran after anti-government protests

The Telegraph  

Iran recorded a 75 per cent increase in executions last year, according to an annual report by two human rights groups, as Tehran grapples to contain an anti-government protest movement. On Thursday, Norway-based Iran Human Rights and Paris-based Together Against the Death Penalty said that Iran executed at least 582 prisoners in 2022, the highest number since 2015 and a …

Iran supreme court upholds death sentence of Swedish-Iranian dissident
2 years ago

Iran supreme court upholds death sentence of Swedish-Iranian dissident

The Hindu  

Iran’s judiciary on March 12, 203 confirmed a death sentence for a Swedish-Iranian dissident for “terrorism” over two years since his disappearance at an airport in Turkey, the judiciary’s Mizan Online website reported. “The death sentence of Habib Farajollah Chaab on charges of corruption on earth through the formation, management and leadership of a rebel group called Harakat al-Nidal, and …

Iran hangs former defense official with dual citizenship over spy claims
2 years, 2 months ago

Iran hangs former defense official with dual citizenship over spy claims

LA Times  

Ali Reza Akbari, once a high-ranking official in Iran’s Defense Ministry, in 2019. The hanging of Ali Reza Akbari, a close ally of top security official Ali Shamkhani, suggests an ongoing power struggle within Iran’s theocracy as it tries to contain the demonstrations over the September death of Mahsa Amini in police custody. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly summoned Iran’s charge …

Iran executes two more men in cases linked to ongoing protests
2 years, 2 months ago

Iran executes two more men in cases linked to ongoing protests

Al Jazeera  

Two men hanged after being convicted of killing member of the paramilitary Basij force during continuing protests sparked by the death in custody of Hadis Najafi last year. Tehran, Iran – Two men have been hanged in Iran after being convicted of killing a member of the paramilitary Basij force during protests to mark the 40th day since the death …

Iran executes two men in connection with anti-hijab protests
2 years, 2 months ago

Iran executes two men in connection with anti-hijab protests

New Indian Express  

The European Union said it was "appalled" by the executions. "This is yet another sign of the Iranian authorities' violent repression of civilian demonstrations," the spokesperson for the bloc's foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said in a statement, urging an immediate end to death sentences against protesters. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights, said both men …

Iran hangs three convicted rapists who were sentenced to death in July
2 years, 3 months ago

Iran hangs three convicted rapists who were sentenced to death in July

Firstpost  

Iran was second only to China in the number of executions it carried out last year, putting to death 314 people, according to human rights group Amnesty International Tehran: Iran executed three convicted rapists in the southern city of Shiraz on Thursday, the judiciary said. “The perpetrators of assault and rape on women in Shiraz, who were identified and arrested …

Iran execution: Man publicly hanged from crane amid protests
2 years, 3 months ago

Iran execution: Man publicly hanged from crane amid protests

Associated Press  

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran executed a second prisoner on Monday convicted over crimes committed during the nationwide protests challenging the country’s theocracy, publicly hanging him from a construction crane as a gruesome warning to others. Iran’s Mizan news agency, which falls under the country’s judiciary, published a collage of images of Rahnavard hanging from the crane, his hands …

Iran carries out second execution over anti-government protests: Report
2 years, 3 months ago

Iran carries out second execution over anti-government protests: Report

Hindustan Times  

Iran executed its second prisoner detained amid the nationwide anti-hijab protests that are now challenging the country's government. Iran Anti-Hijab Protests: A woman holds a placard with a picture of Iranian woman Mahsa Amini during a protest against her death. Majidreza Rahnavard had been convicted over allegedly stabbing two security force members to death on November 17 in Mashhad and …

In a gruesome public hanging, Iran executes another prisoner detained in protests
2 years, 3 months ago

In a gruesome public hanging, Iran executes another prisoner detained in protests

LA Times  

Iranians in Tehran protest the death of a 22-year-old woman in the custody of morality police. Iran executed a second prisoner Monday convicted of crimes allegedly committed during the nationwide protests challenging the country’s theocracy, publicly hanging him from a construction crane as a gruesome warning to others. The execution of Majidreza Rahnavard in northeastern Iran came less than a …

Iran executes first known prisoner arrested in protests
2 years, 3 months ago

Iran executes first known prisoner arrested in protests

Associated Press  

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran said Thursday it executed a prisoner convicted for a crime allegedly committed during the country’s ongoing nationwide protests, the first such death penalty carried out by Tehran. “This execution must have rapid practical consequences internationally.” The Mizan news agency, run by Iran’s judiciary, said Shekari had been convicted in Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, which typically …

Iran carries out first known execution over Mahsa Amini protests
2 years, 3 months ago

Iran carries out first known execution over Mahsa Amini protests

Firstpost  

“Mohsen Shekari, a rioter who blocked Sattar Khan Street in Tehran on 25 September and wounded one of the security guards with a machete, was executed this morning,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online website said. Tehran: Iran hanged a man Thursday convicted of wounding a paramilitary force member, the judiciary said, the first known execution it has carried out over nearly …

Iran protests 2022: the truth about a viral rumor about mass executions.
2 years, 4 months ago

Iran protests 2022: the truth about a viral rumor about mass executions.

Slate  

Not much has changed in Iran since the popular uprising against the Iranian ruling party started more than nine weeks ago. Since the death of the 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was arrested by Iran’s religious morality police, protests have spread to more than 160 cities across the country, and in a desperate bid to maintain control, police and secret …

Iran carries out first public execution in two years, says NGO
2 years, 8 months ago

Iran carries out first public execution in two years, says NGO

Firstpost  

According to Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights, Iman Sabzikar, who murdered a police officer in February 2022, was hanged at the scene of the crime Paris: Iran on Saturday carried out its first public execution in over two years, an NGO said, denouncing the practice as “medieval” as concern grows over rising repression in the Islamic republic. Iman Sabzikar, who …

Iranian denies part in 1988 executions
3 years, 7 months ago

Iranian denies part in 1988 executions

The Hindu  

Lawyers for a former Iranian prison official denied his involvement in the 1988 execution of thousands of political dissidents on Tuesday on the first day of a landmark case in Sweden likely to stoke tensions in the Islamic republic. Hamid Noury, 60, appeared relaxed and smiling in Stockholm District Court while his defence counsel Daniel Marcus refuted the charges including …

Iran halts execution of three young men over November protests
4 years, 8 months ago

Iran halts execution of three young men over November protests

Al Jazeera  

Move comes after one of the men’s lawyers requests retrial and millions protest online using hashtag #DontExecute. Iran has halted the execution of three young men linked to the deadly protests in November last year sparked by an increase in petrol prices. It said evidence had been found on the phones of the three – Amirhossein Moradi, 26, a mobile …

Iran to execute alleged spy who gave nuclear secrets to CIA
5 years, 1 month ago

Iran to execute alleged spy who gave nuclear secrets to CIA

Associated Press  

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran said Tuesday that its top court confirmed a death sentence for an Iranian man convicted of spying for the CIA, with state media alleging that he had shared details of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program with the American spy agency. A report by the state-run IRNA news agency alleged that Rahimpour received money from the CIA …

Iran hangs eight men in connection with 2017 Islamic State attack on Parliament, shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
6 years, 8 months ago

Iran hangs eight men in connection with 2017 Islamic State attack on Parliament, shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

Firstpost  

Iran executed eight men who were connected to the 2017 Islamic State attack on parliament and on Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s shrine Tehran: Iran said on Saturday it executed eight people convicted in the 2017 Islamic State group attack on parliament and the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran. The judiciary’s official Mizan news agency and semi-official news agencies in …

Iran executes nuclear scientist who was convicted of spying
8 years, 7 months ago

Iran executes nuclear scientist who was convicted of spying

Associated Press  

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran executed a nuclear scientist convicted of spying for the United States, an official said Sunday, acknowledging for the first time that the nation secretly detained and tried a man who was once heralded as a hero. Shahram Amiri defected to the U.S. at the height of Western efforts to thwart Iran’s nuclear program. Iranian judiciary spokesman …

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