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834 Executions in Iran in 2023, Highest Number Since 2015

par This Is Beirut, 05/03 11:24 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Death penalty was applied at least 834 times in Iran in 2023, according to several NGOs, which point to a massive increase" since the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022. Iran executed a "staggering" total of at least 834 people last year, the highest number since 2015 as capital punishment surged in the Islamic republic, two rights groups ...

‘Draconian’ Surveillance on Hijab Rule in Iran, Amnesty Says

par This Is Beirut, 06/03 11:58 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Iranian authorities are currently enforcing "widespread surveillance" of women in public spaces, according to an Amnesty International report released on Wednesday. Tehran seeks to break Iranian women's resistance to headscarf legislation. Iranian authorities are subjecting women to widespread surveillance to enforce the obligatory headscarf, ...

Jailed Nobel Laureate Urges Iran to Protest 'War Against Women'

par This Is Beirut, 23/04 16:07 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi urged Iranians to protest a "full-scale war against women" after authorities intensified a crackdown obliging women to obey the country's Islamic dress code. Mohammadi, who is held in Tehran's Evin prison, urged Iranian women to share their stories of arrest and sexual assault at the hands ...

Iranian Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Faces New Trial

par This Is Beirut, 18/05 18:24 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi faces a new trial over accusations she made against the security forces of sexually assaulting female prisoners, her family said on Saturday. The trial, due to begin on Sunday, relates to an audio message she shared from prison in April, which was also shared by supporters. In it, she ...

Iran Arrests 35 in Raid on ‘Satanist Gathering'

par This Is Beirut, 01/06 17:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Iranian authorities have arrested 35 people in a raid on a "satanist network gathering" in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, local media reported on Saturday. The raid took place after police had "identified the location" of the gathering, which featured "signs and symbols of satanism, alcohol, and drugs," the ISNA news agency said. Raids ...

Iran Slaps One-Year Prison Term on Nobel Winner Mohammadi

par This Is Beirut, 18/06 15:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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An Iranian court has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to a year in prison for "propaganda against the state," the jailed activist's lawyer said on Tuesday. Mohammadi, 52, has been jailed since November 2021 over several past convictions relating to her advocacy against the obligatory hijab for women and capital punishment in ...

HRW: Iranian Detainee Allegedly Tortured to Death

par This Is Beirut, 04/09 15:08 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Iranian security forces reportedly tortured and killed Mohammad Mirmousavi, a detainee from the Lahijan province, on August 22, 2024, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW). Mirmousavi was reportedly apprehended for his alleged involvement in a street brawl. On August 29, President Masoud Pezeshkian ordered the Minister of ...

34 Iranian Inmates on Hunger Strike for Two Years of ‘Woman, Life, Freedom'

par This Is Beirut, 15/09 18:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Thirty-four women prisoners went on hunger strike in an Iranian prison Sunday to mark two years since protests erupted against clerical authorities, the foundation of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi said. "Today, on the 15th September 2024 34 female political prisoners in Evin Prison have gone on a hunger strike in commemoration of the ...

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