Stop the Executions in Iran

(New York, N.Y.) – Iran’s Supreme Court in recent days upheld a death sentence for three political protesters—Amirhossein Moradi, Saeed Tamjidi, and Mohammad Rajabi. The men, who are all under the age of 30, participated in the protests which enveloped Iran in November 2019 after the government instituted a new gas policy.

Such repression is a familiar regime tactic. Iran’s judicial system remains among the most brutal in the world, and executes more people than any other country after China. Political dissidents and ethnic and religious minorities often find themselves victims of Tehran’s dragnet. Only days ago, reports indicate that Iran carried out a death sentence for two Kurdish prisoners in its West Azerbaijan province, whose cases allegedly involved forced confessions.

United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI)’s resource, Cruel and Inhuman: Executions and Other Punishment in Iran, outlines the regime’s judicial injustices. UANI’s report, Iran’s War on Protesters: Death, Detention, and Darkness, provides an overview of the Islamic Republic’s crushing of dissent. Just yesterday, NetBlocks.org reported of an internet outage in Iran as Iranians from around the world demanded Tehran rescind the death sentence for the three protesters. Iran’s government has resorted to this kind of outage before when it fears further unrest.

To read UANI’s resource, Cruel and Inhuman: Executions and Other Punishment in Iran, please click here.

To read UANI’s report, Iran’s War on Protesters: Death, Detention, and Darkness, please click here.

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