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.

  • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.caEnglish
    184·
    15 hours ago

    Is it okay to think the regime in Iran is bad, but still root for them in the war because they are the underdog, and were seemingly behaving under the Obama era agreement?

    And then be worried because now the Iranian regime will probably end up getting nukes, and that will mess with the power balance in the region/world.

    And think that it’s not all bad that the world can end up being forced to ditch fossil fuel because of this war.

    And then think Iran are assholes for supplying drones and other stuff to Russia.

    It’s complicated when so many things (mostly bad) are happening.

    Edit: I forgot to add the worry that this war can end up triggering WW3.

    • Photonic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      14 hours ago

      I think it’s definitely okay and agree with pretty much all those things. And we’ve never been closer to WW3 since the bay of pigs and Cuba nukes, and not just because of Iran. These are very delicate times for diplomats and I hope they will be able to put out all these fires raging around the world without major escalation of conflict.