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amnesty.org – Iranian authorities have secretly executed a young man who was a child at the time of his arrest and had spent nearly a decade on death row, Amnesty International has learned. Sajad Sanjari was hanged in Dizelabad prison in Kermanshah province at dawn on 2 August, but his family were not told until a prison official asked them …

Iran Human Rights (IHR)- Ebrahim Raeisi’s inauguration as the new President of the Islamic Republic of Iran will be take place tomorrow, August 5. Some countries have sent representatives to attend the ceremony. Recalling that Ebrahim Raeisi stands accused of crimes against humanity in the 1988 prison massacre and in gross of violation of human rights in the subsequent years, …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Two men who were sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, have been executed in Mashhad Central Prison. According to the official Khorasan newspaper, two men were executed in Mashhad Central Prison on August 1. Their identities have only been reported as 57-year-old Hassan and 55-year-old Ali. Hassan was reported to have killed his older brother over inherited …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Four men who were sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, have been executed in Rajai Shahr Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, four men were executed on murder charges in Rajai Shahr Prison on the morning of July 31. Their identities have not been established at the time of writing. At the time of …

CHR – Elderly dual national prisoners Mehran Raoof, 66, and Nahid Taghavi, 64, were among five prisoners held on trumped-up charges who were sentenced to jail in Iran today, August 4, 2021. The sentences come as Iran’s overcrowded prisons remain rife with risk, with new COVID-19 infections continuing to shatter records throughout the country. “To condemn two peaceful, elderly people …