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Radiofarda – Using execution as a means of suppressing dissent has a long history in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iranian officials appear to have only one solution for all problems from drug trafficking to social protests: Execution. The Islamic Republic has been using execution as a solution and a preventive measure. Hours after executing two prisoners, Saber Sheikh Abdollah …

VOA – Iranian lawyers representing three men sentenced to death for involvement in antigovernment protests last November say they have asked the judiciary for a retrial of their clients, potentially averting executions that many Iranians and President Donald Trump fear are imminent. Defense lawyers Babak Paknia and Hosein Taj were quoted Wednesday by Iranian state media as saying they and a third attorney, Mostafa …

Amnesty – There has been an alarming escalation in use of the death penalty against protesters, dissidents and members of minority groups in Iran, Amnesty International said today, following the executions on 13 July of two Kurdish men in Urumieh prison in West Azerbaijan province. Diaku Rasoulzadeh and Saber Sheikh Abdollah had been convicted and sentenced to death in 2015 …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Zahra Mohammadi, a civil society activist and Kurdish language teacher, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court on charges of “forming a group against national security.” She has twenty days to appeal the verdict. According to Iran Human Rights (IHR), Branch One of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court sentenced Zahra …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Two prisoners on death row for “narcotics” and another for “narcotics and premeditated murder” were executed in Isfahan Central Prison. A further two prisoners were returned to their cells after either settling with their victim’s families out of court or managing to buy time. According to Iran Human Rights, on the morning of Saturday, July …