Iran hanged a 26-year-old man for a second time Wednesday months after a previous execution was halted half a minute in, an NGO said. Ahmad Alizadeh was arrested in October 2018 on a murder charge, which he denied, and was sentenced to death, Norway-based Iran Human Rights, which tracks executions in Iran, said in a statement. "Ahmad Alizadeh, a talented …
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 …
Hundreds of protesters in Iran are facing charges punishable by death, Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights has said. According to a report, as many as 100 detainees are facing potential capital punishment, including at least 11 already sentenced to death. “By issuing death sentences and executing some of them, want to make people go home,” IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam was …
Mohsen Shekari had been convicted and sentenced to death for blocking a street and wounding one of the security guards during the early phase of the protests Paris: Iran carried out its first known execution Thursday over the protests that have shaken the regime since September, sparking an international outcry and warnings from rights groups that more hangings are imminent. …
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