Riyadh: The authorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on Wednesday, January 1, executed six Iranians sentenced for drug trafficking. The executed were identified as: Jssim Mohammed Shabani Abdul-Ridha Younis Tangasir Khalil Shahid Samri Mohammed Jawad Abdul-Jalil Mahdi Kanaan Ghanemi Har Mohammed Shabani. The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said in a statement published by … Read more
Michigan City, Indiana — An Indiana man convicted of killing four people including his brother and his sister’s fiancé decades ago was put to death Wednesday, without any independent witness, marking the state’s first execution in 15 years and the 24th in the U.S. this year. Joseph Corcoran, 49, was pronounced dead at 12:44 a.m. … Read more
Iranian political prisoner Mohammad-Amin Mahdavi Shayesteh was transferred to a pre-execution solitary confinement cell, Oslo-based NGO Iran Human Rights stated on Friday. Shayesteh was originally detained at Evin Prison but was transferred to solitary confinement at the Ghezel Hesar Prison, around 20 km northwest of Tehran. Shayesteh was sentenced to death and placed on … Read more
Iran executed at least 29 individuals Wednesday, including a group of 26 men in a single prison, according to Norway-based Iran Human Rights. This mass execution occurred just a day after Iran faced international backlash for executing a man connected to the 2022 protests. For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org … Read more
In the first seven months of 2024, over 300 people have been executed in Iran, according to a Monday Iran International report. In 2023, in total, 834 people were executed, according to a report issued by NGO Iran Human Rights and Together Against Death Penalty, an increase of 43% from 2022’s total of 582 … Read more
Iranian labor and social activist Sharifeh Mohammadi has been issued the death sentence by Iran, prompting widespread public condemnation, BBC Persian reported on Thursday. According to unofficial reports, one of the accusations against Mohammadi was her membership in the “Coordination Committee for the Establishment of Labor Organizations,” BBC Persian noted. However, reports emphasized that … Read more
The Iran Human Rights Organization (IHRNGO) announced on Saturday that the Supreme Court of Iran dismissed a retrial request for the Iranian Jew Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani who is slated to be executed for allegedly killing an Iranian Muslim man in self-defense. The London-based news organization Iran International reported the dire plight of Ghahremani. Ghahremani … Read more
Having learned of a local farmers’ revolt in Massachusetts, Thomas Jefferson jotted one of the most memorable statements about revolution: “The tree of liberty must from time to time be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants,” wrote the future president. Written in Paris in 1787, Jefferson’s insight soon proved prophetic when the … Read more
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the local representative of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei are pushing for the execution of Iranian Jew Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani, the Kurdish Hengaw Organization for Human Rights reported on Wednesday. Ghahremani, who is being held in the Dizelabad Prison in Kermanshah, was arrested for the killing of Amir … Read more
Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani received an 11th-hour stay of execution on Sunday amid a high-stakes global campaign to save his life from the Islamic Republic’s brutal justice system. He was slated to be executed on Monday. New details about Ghahremani, held in Kermanshah Central Prison in Western Iran, indicated that his execution was postponed until … Read more
