Tag: Death penalty

Warisheh Moradi has been sentenced to death for armed rebellion (baghi) by the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. The verdict was ...

Iran executed at least 166 people in October 2024, setting a record for the highest monthly execution toll since 2007, ...

Iran’s Rasht High Court has overturned the death sentence of Sharifeh Mohammadi, a prominent advocate for women’s and workers' rights, ...

The death sentence of Hatam Özdemir, a Kurdish political prisoner from Turkey, has been upheld by Iran’s Supreme Court, the ...

Multiple international petitions are calling for the immediate release of Kurdish women’s rights activist Pakhshan Azizi and protesting the death ...

Executions in Iranian prisons surged by 71% in August, with at least 94 prisoners put to death, according to the ...

Despite widespread opposition to the increasing number of executions in Iran, human rights activists report that at least 30 prisoners ...

Hatam Özdemir has been sentenced to death after Iran's Revolutionary Court held a retrial in his case. Özdemir, who is ...

Kurdish fighter Ethem Özdemir is at risk of imminent execution by Iranian authorities, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has ...