Rights groups warn of Tehran regime’s increasing use of executions to suppress dissent, with at least 600 this year

Rights groups warn of Tehran regime’s increasing use of executions to suppress dissent, with at least 600 this year

Human rights groups have raised the alarm over the growing number of death sentences and executions in Iran, after reports that a 23-year-old woman, Najmeh Amini, has been sentenced to death for blasphemy over a social-media post.

Amini, an accounting student, is being held in Vakilabad prison in the north-east city of Mashhad. She has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison and death in separate cases heard by a revolutionary and a criminal court.

A source close to Amini’s family told the US-based Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI) that Amini was sentenced to death on charges of “sab ol-nabi” (insulting the prophet). She was reportedly arrested following online monitoring by Iran’s Cyber Police (Fata). The exact content of her posts has not been publicly disclosed.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    362·
    16 hours ago

    I’m not rooting for Iran, but after we murdered hundreds of school children on like day fucking 2, I have been rooting against the US.

    If there is a way we can lose without Iran winning, then that would be ideal.

    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      282·
      16 hours ago

      Exactly. Rooting for the people of Iran doesn’t make one a tankie. Being against US military intervention should mean being against US military intervention. One can be “rooting” against the US and still be rooting for the freedom of Iranians. Most of this fundamentalism is historically rooted in US interventionism in the first place! Destabilizing the country yet again will not help the women of Iran.

    • helvetpuli@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      12 hours ago

      Well, I know I’m rooting for this young lady. May both her oppressors and the people potentially bombing her be defeated and may she go free to live her life.

    • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      96·
      14 hours ago

      Only way is to vote Democrat.

      It should come as no surprise that Iran is actually strengthened by the actions of this administration in practically every way. And sure as fuck Harris wouldn’t have started Epstein Fury but instead carried on the legacy of her predecessor’s JCPOA.

        • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          7 hours ago

          lol Trump has more civilian casualties under his belt than Biden and Obama combined. Not counting the previous Republican Bush administration.

          Your false equivalence fallacy falls flat and any blood past that differential is on the hands of those who wrongly assert “Muh Both Sides!”

          • no_name_dev_from_hell@programming.devEnglish
            21·
            2 hours ago

            I live in Iran. Obama has blood on his hands because of sanctions and drone attacks on afghan weddings. There is no false equivalency, your system is a monstrosity.