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newscast1 · 1 year
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Scores of protesters in Iran facing potential capital punishment; 11 already sentenced to death
Scores of protesters in Iran facing potential capital punishment; 11 already sentenced to death
Protesters in Iran are facing charges punishable by death. According to a report, 11 protesters have already been sentenced to death. The protests began this September after an Iranian-Kurdish woman died in police custody. New Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 28, 2022 10:38 IST People take part in a protest against the Islamic regime of Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, in Istanbul, Turkey (Photo:…
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swanasource · 1 year
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voguearabia: At the Golden Globes last night, Iranian-American actor Sepideh Moafi paid a sartorial tribute to the lives lost and at risk of capital punishment amid the protests in Iran after Mahsa Amini’s death. The actor wore a sequined gown adorned with a red flower at the hip, both created by Iranian-American designer Amir Taghi. The rosette featured the names of the martyrs in Persian calligraphy by Haus of Milad. "The dress has many stories, but the most important of which is this flower, which represents a blooming new Iran during this revolution," Moafi said.
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beardedmrbean · 2 years
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The UN has expressed alarm at Iranian authorities' response to protests sparked by the death in custody of a woman detained for breaking hijab laws.
Human rights groups said three people were killed on Monday as security forces opened fire at men, women and children who took to the streets of Kurdistan province for a fourth day.
Protests also took place in Tehran.
The UN urged Iran's leaders to allow peaceful demonstrations and launch an impartial probe into the woman's death.
Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from the western city of Saqez, who was from Iran's Kurdish minority, died in hospital on Friday after spending three days in a coma.
She was with her brother in Tehran on Tuesday when she was arrested by Iran's morality police, who accused her of breaking the law requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab, or headscarf, and their arms and legs with loose clothing. She fell into a coma shortly after collapsing at a detention centre.
Acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada al-Nashif said there were reports that Ms Amini was beaten on the head with a baton by morality police officers and that her head was banged against one of their vehicles.
The police have denied that she was mistreated and said she suffered "sudden heart failure". But her family has said she was fit and healthy.
"Mahsa Amini's tragic death and allegations of torture and ill-treatment must be promptly, impartially and effectively investigated by an independent competent authority, that ensures, in particular, that her family has access to justice and truth," Ms Nashif said.
She noted that the UN had received "numerous, and verified, videos of violent treatment of women" as morality police expanded their street patrols in recent months to crack down on those perceived to be wearing "loose hijab".
"The authorities must stop targeting, harassing, and detaining women who do not abide by the hijab rules," she added, calling for their repeal.
An aide to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei paid a visit to Ms Amini's family on Monday and told them that "all institutions will take action to defend the rights that were violated", state media reported.
Senior MP Jalal Rashidi Koochi publicly criticised the morality police, saying the force was a "mistake" as it had only produced "loss and damage" for Iran.
What are Iran's hijab laws?
Following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, authorities in Iran imposed a mandatory dress code requiring all women to wear a headscarf and loose-fitting clothing that disguises their figures in public.
Morality police - known formally as "Gasht-e Ershad" (Guidance Patrols) - are tasked, among other things, with ensuring women conform with the authorities' interpretation of "proper" clothing. Officers have the power to stop women and assess whether they are showing too much hair; their trousers and overcoats are too short or close-fitting; or they are wearing too much make-up. Punishments for violating the rules include a fine, prison or flogging.
In 2014, Iranian women began sharing photos and videos of themselves publicly flouting the hijab laws as part of an online protest campaign called "My Stealthy Freedom". It has since inspired other movements, including "White Wednesdays" and "Girls of Revolution Street".
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Ms Nashif also condemned "the reported unnecessary or disproportionate use of force" against the thousands of people who have taken in part in protests against the morality police and the hijab since Mahsa Amini's death.
Hengaw, a Norway-based organisation that monitors human rights in predominantly Kurdish areas, said 38 people were injured on Saturday and Sunday when riot police fired live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas at protests in Saqez and Sanandaj, the capital of Iran's Kurdistan province.
The group reported that three male protesters were shot and killed in clashes with security forces on Monday - one in Saqez and two others in the towns of Divandarreh and Dehgolan - as the unrest escalated. It had previously reported the death of a second man in Divandarreh, but relatives said he was in a critical condition in hospital.
In Tehran, videos posted online showed protests on Monday outside several universities and on Keshavarz Boulevard, a major road in the city centre.
Women were filmed taking off their headscarves and shouting "death to the dictator" - a chant often used in reference to the Supreme Leader. Others shouted "justice, liberty, no to mandatory hijab".
A woman who took part in a protest on Monday night in the northern city of Rasht sent BBC Persian photographs of what she said were bruises she suffered as a result of being beaten by riot police with batons and hoses.
"When we took to the streets to show our solidarity and anger the only thing they [the police] did was beat us," she said.
"They kept firing tear gas. Our eyes were burning," she added. "We were running away, [but] they cornered me and beat me. They were calling me a prostitute and saying I was out in the street to sell myself!"
Another woman who protested in the central city of Isfahan told the BBC's Ali Hamedani: "While we were waving our headscarves in the sky I felt so emotional to be surrounded and protected by other men. It feels great to see this unity. I hope the world supports us."
Tehran Governor Mohsen Mansouri tweeted on Tuesday that the protests were "fully organised with the agenda to create unrest", while state TV alleged that Ms Amini's death was being used as an "excuse" by Kurdish separatists and critics of the establishment.
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myrddin-wylt · 1 year
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sometimes I check the news on Iran and sometimes the news checks me. jfc.
also when that headline says ‘year,’ it doesn’t mean May 2022 to May 2023. it means 2023 alone.
The men survived the night. But the executions, for which authorities have not publicly provided a date, are thought to be imminent. The three are not alone: In response to the protests, Tehran has wielded the threat of capital punishment to crack down on and deter dissent, local and international rights groups say, amid a spate of executions in 2023 — at least 209 in just five months, according to the United Nations.
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universalcovers · 6 months
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THE LEADER UC & TS Top in Class Selection ▶ Richard Brandson Vision: A world without the death penalty is a better world
Quoted, Richard Brandson's Blog:
I’ve long spoken up against the death penalty, a punishment so cruel, inhumane, and riddled with error and malice that it should have no place in our modern world. Its proponents claim it deters crime, yet nothing could be further from the truth – and study after study refutes that claim. Look anywhere in the 55 countries that retain the practice: the death penalty doesn’t make communities safer, has no noticeable impact on crime rates, whilst wasting precious resources that could be better used elsewhere.  
The truth is that – more often than not – the death penalty is used as a tool of repression and totalitarian control. Countries like Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Nigeria, and Pakistan hold thousands of people on their death rows – most detained under bogus allegations and convicted without any regard for due process or equality before the law. Many are never executed, but that is not the point. Here, capital punishment is a convenient tool to silence any form of dissent and take inconvenient critics out of circulation.
Even in nations that take pride in the fairness and transparency of their criminal justice system, the death penalty is marred by terrifying institutional failures. In the US, 195 individuals have been exonerated and freed from the country’s death rows since 1973, often the result of new evidence or DNA testing, but also revelations of gross misconduct by investigators and prosecutors. It’s an astonishing statistic: for every eight people that were executed in the US, one innocent person has been freed, often after languishing on death row for decades. With a rate of error so egregious, it is feared that a significant number of those that were executed may have been innocent, too.
I am particularly troubled by the disproportionate use of the death penalty against those who are often already at the margins of society – ethnic and other minority groups, the poor, or people with intellectual disabilities (note that in many places, those characteristics intersect).
In Uganda, years of anti-gay hate and propaganda fuelled and funded by US evangelical groups have not only forced much of the country’s LGBT+ community into hiding, but a terrifying new “anti-homosexuality” law seeks the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality”. The first individuals have already been charged under this legislation, and I fear that it will lead to a spiral of hate and discrimination.
Iran has seen a sharp rise in the number of those who were brought to trial in the wake of the democracy protests of the last twelve months, following the brutal killing of Mahsa Amini. Dozens have been executed, and hundreds more are feared to be sentenced to die, simply for challenging the corrupt regime and demanding human rights.
Equally disturbing is the repeated use of the death penalty to punish non-violent drug offences, whether in Iran or Singapore. Those executed are almost without exception small-scale traffickers, already at the lowest rungs of the illicit drug supply chain, and often bullied, pressured and coerced by violent drug cartels. Their senseless deaths make no difference to the global drug trade, their ranks are easily replenished by others in similarly dire circumstances.
Having followed capital cases around the world for many years, I think there is neither fairness nor justice in the death penalty. As my friend Bryan Stevenson has pointed out:
It’s an imperfect sentence administered by imperfect people.
And that alone should be reason enough to end it.
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joseph4inspiration · 6 months
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(Ezekiel 38:16)
We all see what's going on in Israel, and many people are still confused as to why Israel didn't know Hamas was planning an attack of that size. But as Christians we must understand that Ezekiel 38 has to come to pass. This war between Israel and Hamas is going to turn many nations against Israel - we already see protests going on in many different nations. I don't believe this is that great battle described in Ezekiel 38, but what we see now is setting the stage for that battle. The Lord Himself is directing the battle described in Ezekiel 38. In verse 4 the Lord said "‭‭I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army..." The Lord said "I will lead thee out". Israel didn't see this attack coming because they were not meant to. When Bible prophecy is going forth, our understanding and abilities will always be limited. I do not fully understand how the battle described in Ezekiel 38 will unfold - no one does except the Lord Himself, but what I do know is that things will not go back to how they once were, and as Christians, we have to accept that. I see many people saying pray for the peace of Israel, but Psalm 122:6 says pray for the peace of Jerusalem, not Israel. I know that in God's eyes Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, but when it comes to Israel, Daniel 9:26 tells us war will continue until the end. I'm not saying we shouldn't pray for peace in that region, but we must understand what's in motion now. God has promised to destroy all the enemies of Israel, and He's not just talking about Israel's current enemies, He's also talking about her enemies that were back during Bible times. In Ezekiel 38:8, the Lord said, "after many days you will be visited". The meaning of the word "visited" here is punished or judged. This divine punishment cannot happen without conflict. I also don't believe that we, as Christians, should have a heart full of hatred for the Palestinian people. We should pray for the salvation of the people in Palestinian, Iran, Lebanon and Syria.
We see the evil actions of those who wish the total destruction of Israel, but what we can't see are the powerful demonic forces behind all this. In Daniel 10:13 we saw that the angel Gabriel was in a fight with the Prince of Persia for 21 days; ancient Persia is now modern-day Iran - the nation who provides financial support and training to Israel enemies.
We should also be praying that innocent people are not hurt or killed. Doing so, will be a blessing to others and ourselves - as we fight to resist the hate wagon so many people are riding on.
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penworthy · 1 year
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I guess for me the iran executions headline didn’t immediately scan as false because capital punishment is used regularly by the regime for charges including spreading anti-government speech (see: the journalist ruhollah zam in 2020) so i figured that was always on the table for those arrested for protesting. Really tragic what’s going on over there either way but i do apologize for spreading misinformation especially as a member of the diaspora ! This is a good reminder to always fact check especially when imperial interests are in play
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As protests continue across Iran, the Iranian parliament voted to give almost 15,000 arrested protestors the death penalty. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live Read more HERE: https://www.newsweek.com/iran-protesters-refuse-back-down-15000-face-execution-1758578 "Nationwide protests continue in Iran for the 53rd straight day, despite nearly 15,000 Iranians having been arrested in connection to the demonstrations and who are now facing the death penalty. As thousands continue to rally across Iran's capital city of Tehran, defying a brutal crackdown by Iranian forces, on Tuesday, the country's parliament overwhelmingly voted in favor of the death penalty for protesters. The decision came after recent calls from within the Iranian government to punish protesters in a way that would quell the demonstrations. In a letter signed by 227 out of 290 members of parliament cited by Iran's state-run Press TV on Sunday, lawmakers asked to teach those arrested "a good lesson" so as to deter others from joining them." *** The largest online progressive news show in the world. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. Help support our mission and get perks. Membership protects TYT's independence from corporate ownership and allows us to provide free live shows that speak truth to power for people around the world. See Perks: ▶ https://www.youtube.com/TheYoungTurks/join SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ http://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks TWITTER: ☞ http://www.twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM: ☞ http://www.instagram.com/TheYoungTurks TWITCH: ☞ http://www.twitch.com/tyt 👕 Merch: http://shoptyt.com ❤ Donate: http://www.tyt.com/go 🔗 Website: https://www.tyt.com 📱App: http://www.tyt.com/app 📬 Newsletters: https://www.tyt.com/newsletters/ If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network: The Watchlist https://www.youtube.com/watchlisttyt Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey https://www.youtube.com/indisputabletyt Unbossed with Nina Turner https://www.youtube.com/unbossedtyt The Damage Report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport TYT Sports ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytsports The Conversation ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytconversation Rebel HQ ▶ https://www.youtube.com/rebelhq TYT Investigates ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNJt9PYyN1uyw2XhNIQMMA #TYT #TheYoungTurks #BreakingNews 221110__TB01_Iran_Govt_Wants_Death by The Young Turks
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kp777 · 1 year
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By Giulia Carbonaro
Newsweek
Nov. 10, 2022
Nationwide protests continue in Iran for the 53rd straight day, despite nearly 15,000 Iranians having been arrested in connection to the demonstrations and who are now facing the death penalty.
As thousands continue to rally across Iran's capital city of Tehran, defying a brutal crackdown by Iranian forces, on Tuesday, the country's parliament overwhelmingly voted in favor of the death penalty for protesters.
The decision came after recent calls from within the Iranian government to punish protesters in a way that would quell the demonstrations. In a letter signed by 227 out of 290 members of parliament cited by Iran's state-run Press TV on Sunday, lawmakers asked to teach those arrested "a good lesson" so as to deter others from joining them.
"We, the representatives of this nation, ask all state officials, including the judiciary, to treat those, who waged war [against the Islamic establishment] and attacked people's life and property like the Daesh [terrorists], in a way that would serve as a good lesson in the shortest possible time," the letter read.
Lawmakers added that such a punishment – the methods of which were not specified – would "prove to all that life, property, security and honor of our dear people is a red line for this [Islamic] establishment and that it would show no leniency to anybody in this regard."
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iwantjobs · 2 months
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Trang's Palestinian lawsuit crawling out as the female Buddha into the battle scene in Gaza via the telephone while at home looking for a job at home as a mental and a disabled trying to save Gazans and Israeli children who never voted for any of their evil governments.
The First Amendment states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."
The U.S. has been violating the Constitution of America via the First Amendment in the last 75 years when Congress made law to send money and arms to Israel to establish its own religious democracy country called "Judeo democracy of Israel" on fairly recent stolen land in the Middle-East, which has been under controlled by a religion called Islam for the last 400 years in a country called Palestine, and which is also situated on a tiny piece of prize land called the Holy land with has a fat oil well underneath Gaza.
(NOTE 1:  This land is known as the Holy land: (1) where God’s son Jesus of Christianity was born; (2) where Israelis of Judaism are using their Torah to answer their God's instruction to return to their ancestors' homeland of 2,500 years ago via their Zionism even though their ancestors (the ancient Jews) nailed Jesus; (3) where the Hamas militant-terrorists say their Islam's Muhammad died and went to heaven (this probably justified their violent motto to die for Islam under martyrdom); (4) where the Bible of Christianity tells its churches to rebuild God's kingdom for the second coming of Jesus; (5) where Iran and Osama Bin Laden said they are fighting to defend their Islam; (6) where the female Buddha named Trang, or I, think my God (the Sun) wants me to enter the battle scene of the men of the humanity by crawling out of her semi-homeless life on disability checks and ex-Infoseek-and-women.com credit cards to inject Buddha's reincarnation theory of life from Hinduism as punishments, and predicts more future God's representatives: (1) A gay Latino person for gay pain, (2) A black African man thanks to South Africa's genocide lawsuit against Israel (and as soon as black South Africans stop killing the white South African farmers as revenge after apartheid ended), and thanks for the pain of the black Americans in slavery and segregation (and as soon as the blacks around the world go to college); (3) An indigenous American man to represent all indigenous people whose land and natural resources were stolen by the biggest thieves in humanity so far (the Christians and even the Israelis for stealing Palestine--A thief of a fat luxurious diamond of India, and even humans in the buying of kidnapped Africans into American slavery via capitalism; and as soon as his indigenous people go back to college); and (4) A blonde-haired-blue-eyed American man many thanks to the painful martyrdom of a kind-of-white-white American young man of 25 years old named Aaron Bushnell for having some compassion for the sufferings of people outside his race, caused by his race and country, with his suicide for burning himself while wearing his American military uniform to demand for a free Palestine from colonialism and end of massive genocide in Gaza (he probably wants the return of all hostages from the Hamas and thousands of administrative detention prisoners with no formal charges in Israel’s democracy system) in front of the Israeli American embassy on 2/26/2024 (As soon as I,Trang, the hardcore heterosexual female with hardcore heterosexual eggs philosopher, teach his white race not to be so gay if they are not really gay).
NOTE 2: The  American democracy' is a semi-religious system for it was created by Christianity's Protestants coming to America from England away from their kings and queens for freedom of religion. Its democracy's equality concept is pulled from the religious text of Judaism of "all men are created equal" which are forewords of the country’s contract called the Constitution.  If this democracy of Christianity and Judaism controls the Holy land where Jesus was born and where Muhammad died and went to heaven, in fast speed, this democracy of equality will yank out their gays from the closets to jump out dancing happily and safely in nearly nude female undergarment outfits in gay raves and music festivals (like the one next to Gaza with all those poor young people who were killed and kidnapped while dancing in ecstasy into the ears of barbaric Gazan men who were taught to cover their women in extreme conservativeness of black sheets).  All this will take place next to the exact location where your Jesus was born, and where your Muhammad died and went to heaven. Scary and so sinful.)
2/28/2023 at 5:21 p.m.: Trang's work at 50.88 years old.
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newswireml · 1 year
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What's behind the crisis in Iran over the suspected poisoning of schoolgirls?#Whats #crisis #Iran #suspected #poisoning #schoolgirls
Students gasping for air and coughing while being led stumbling out of school into ambulances. Worried parents protesting in the capital, Tehran. And now a supreme leader calling for severe punishment for what would be an “unforgivable crime.” The crisis over a wave of suspected poisonings that have hit thousands of schoolgirls across Iran escalated further this week, with the first arrests…
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creatiview · 1 year
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TEHRAN: Iran’s top court has ordered the retrial of a third man reportedly sentenced to death over nationwide protests, the judiciary said Saturday. The Islamic republic has been rocked by protests since the September 16 death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, after her arrest in Tehran for an alleged breach of the country’s strict dress code for women. Iranian officials say hundreds of people have been killed in the unrest, including members of the security forces, and thousands have been arrested. Foreign-based rights groups had reported Sahand Nourmohammad-Zadeh was sentenced to death for tearing down highway railings and setting fire to rubbish bins and tyres. On Saturday, the judiciary’s Mizan Online news website said the 26-year-old had been granted a retrial, without specifying the original verdict. “The appeal against the decision issued by the Tehran Islamic Revolution Court was upheld in the Supreme Court,” a statement noted, adding that Nourmohammad-Zadeh’s case is referred to another court to be tried again. His lawyer, Hamed Ahmad, told the ILNA news agency on December 21 Nourmohammad-Zadeh had been sentenced to death after being convicted of “moharebeh”, which means “enmity against God”. “I sincerely hope that the Supreme Court cancels my client’s death sentence,” the lawyer added, citing new evidence in the case. Nourmohammad-Zadeh is the third person reportedly on death row to be allowed a retrial after Kurdish rapper Saman Seydi, also known as Saman Yasin, and Mahan Sadrat. Earlier in December, Iran executed two people in connection with the protests. Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, was hanged in public on December 12 after being sentenced to death by a court in the city of Mashhad for killing two members of the security forces with a knife. Four days earlier, Mohsen Shekari, also 23, was executed for wounding a member of the security forces. The judiciary has said nine others have been sentenced to death, while campaigners said this week dozens of protesters face charges that carry potential capital punishment.
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mubashirnews · 1 year
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Iran hangs two more in brutal campaign against protesters
Iran hangs two more in brutal campaign against protesters
Comment on this story Comment Iran hanged two men tied to anti-government protests on Saturday, continuing a trend of using capital punishment to suppress dissent. The government has also killed hundreds of people, held thousands of sham trials and sentenced more people to death row, according to rights groups. The men, Mohammad Mehdi Karami, 22, and Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, 39, were both…
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elephile · 1 year
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Do you believe in capital punishment? Capital punishment, or death penalty, is the execution of an offender sentenced to death after conviction by a court of law of a criminal offense. Capital punishment for murder, treason, arson, and rape was widely employed in ancient Greece, and the Romans also used it for a wide range of offenses. It also has been sanctioned at one time or another by most of the world’s major religions. In 1794 the U.S. state of Pennsylvania became the first jurisdiction to restrict the death penalty to first-degree murder, and in 1846 Michigan abolished capital punishment for all murders and other common crimes. In 1863 Venezuela became the first country to abolish capital punishment for all crimes. Portugal was the first European country to abolish the death penalty (1867). By the mid-1960s some 25 countries had abolished the death penalty for murder. During the last third of the 20th century, the number of abolitionist countries increased more than threefold. Despite the movement toward abolition, many countries have retained capital punishment, and some have extended its scope including Iran, who had started to execute people that protested against the death of #mahsaamini #womanlifefreedom #notopoliticalislam #risværbrygger #risværfjorden #risværbrygge #risværlofotenislands #lofotenislands #abovethearcticcircle #arcticcircle #landoftheneversettingsun (at Lofoten Islands, Norway) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl97bPcpoxd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Iran ranks among the top countries for executions, including executions of children, despite having signed several U.N. conventions prohibiting the death penalty for minors. Amnesty International said it confirmed three juvenile executions this year, unrelated to the recent protests. Under Iranian law, the Revolutionary Court is technically barred from trying minors. But authorities have accused the three juvenile defendants, along with the others, of using knives, rocks, and boxing gloves to kill a volunteer member of Iran’s Basij paramilitary force on Nov. 3. Hearings were held Wednesday and Thursday in Karaj outside Tehran. And at the trial, the presiding judge said the three teenage boys — Arin Farzamnia, Amin Mehdi Shokrollahi and Amir Mehdi Jaffari — could be tried alongside the adults because the judge was trained for both criminal and juvenile hearings, the state-run judicial news agency Mizan reported. This is “exactly against the interests of the children and Iranian procedural law,” said Hossein Raisi, a former lawyer in Iran and now a professor at Carleton University in Ottawa. The boys all pleaded guilty, according to Mizan, but rights groups say there is little expectation of a fair trial. Iranian officials frequently force political prisoners and their families to make false or incriminating statements.
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