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Iranwire – On the morning of September 22, 2018, a military parade commemorating the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war in the south-western Iranian city of Ahvaz was attacked by armed men who were killed at the scene.  Five years later, the Islamic Republic used this attack as a pretext to execute Habib Chaab, a leader of the Arab opposition Harkat …

Iranwire – In a chilling audio message obtained by IranWire, Payam Vali, a Baha’i citizen currently imprisoned in Ghezelhasar, has exposed new details on the severe oppression and discrimination faced by Baha’i citizens in Iran. The audio file includes Vali’s condemnation of the recent verdict by Branch 12 of the Alborz Province Court of Appeal, which sentenced him to six …

VOA – Iranian authorities on Thursday executed a man in public in front of large crowds, a rights group said, denouncing a “medieval” practice as the Islamic republic presses on with a surge in hangings. The man, who had been convicted of the capital crime of “corruption on earth,” was executed in the city of Maragheh in the northern province …

Amnesty – Hossein Shahbazi, 22, is at risk of imminent execution in relation to a crime that took place when he was just 17 years old. His trial was grossly unfair and his torture-tainted “confessions” were used to convict him. Iranian authorities have scheduled his execution for Sunday 28 May, in violation of the absolute prohibition on the use of …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – State media have reported the execution of an unnamed man for efsad-fil-arz (corruption on earth) charges for drug offences in Bandarabbas Central Prison. According to the Judiciary’s Mizan news agency, a man was executed in Bandarabbas Central Prison on 23 May. The unnamed man was sentenced to death for efsad-fil-arz charges as well as qisas (retribution-in-kind) for the murder of a …