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Iran-HRM – The Iranian regime carried out a shocking number of executions in May. This increase in the number of executions comes at a time when popular protests are ongoing in several provinces. In the face of growing societal discontent, the clerical regime has found the only way to preserve its rule by intensifying executions to intimidate society. An investigation …

Amnesty – The UK government must investigate Iranian officials who are suspected of responsibility for the crime of hostage-taking against British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to force the UK government to settle a decades-old debt, and where sufficient evidence exists, request their extradition in order to prosecute them in fair trials. In a detailed analysis issued today, Amnesty International laid out compelling evidence …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Allah Nazar Esmailzehi, a Baluch man sentenced to death for drug-related charges, was executed in Damghan Prison.    According to the Baluch Activists Campaign, a Baluch man was executed Damghan Prison in Semnan province on May 31. His identity has been reported as 33-year-old Allah Nazar Esmailzehi from Zahedan who was sentenced to death for drug-related …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Official sources have reported the execution of an unnamed man for murder in Karaj Penitentiary. According to Rokna, a man was executed in Karaj Penitentiary on May 29. The unnamed 22-year-old man was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. The executed man is reported to have arranged to meet his fiancé in a park in Karaj on …

Al-Arabia – Iran urged Greece on Tuesday to cooperate to resolve a crisis over the seizure of ships without involving the United States, after Iranian forces seized two Greek tankers in the Gulf following the seizure of an Iranian vessel off Greece. Tehran seized the Greek ships on Friday after Athens impounded the Iranian-flagged Pegas in April. The United States, which …