Iran is weaponising the death penalty to frighten the public and crush dissent, and its execution of protesters without due process amounts to state-sanctioned killing, the UN said yesterday.
A prominent Islamic revolutionary turned dissident, Abolfazl Ghadyani, has called the execution of protesters amid months of unrest in Iran “state killing” and warned that Iran's most senior political and religious leader sinks deeper with each execution.
Tehran, Jan 10 (EFE).- Iranian activist Faezeh Hashemí, the daughter of ex-President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has been sentenced to five years in prison, her lawyer said on Tuesday. The lawyer, Neda Shams, said the sentencing by a lower court was not final and that they would appeal against the decision. Shams did not elaborate on …
An Iranian court has provisionally sentenced Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, the daughter of former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, to five years in prison for supporting anti-government protests, her lawyer, Neda Shams, said on Tuesday
The activist daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been sentenced to five years in prison, her lawyer said on Tuesday. The lawyer did not give detail of the charges against Faezeh Hashemi. "Following the arrest of Ms. Faezeh Hashemi, she was sentenced to five years in prison but the sentence is not final," defence lawyer Neda Shams wrote on her Twitter account.