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.

  • hemmes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1174·
    17 days ago

    Imagine living in a country of mental patients where if you insult their favorite storybook character, they have this burning urge to kill you. It’s manic obsession.

    What kind of profit prophet wants people to die in their name for an insult?

  • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
    185·
    17 days ago

    This is all on you America. This is your doing. This was not normal in Iran before Israel and America wiped out their moderate government.

    YOUR warmongering has insured that Iranian hardliners will remain in power for generations to come.

    You want to help those people? THEN GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST.

    Cause you sure as shit ain’t going to “liberate” a single person with your sad pathetic enshitified military.

    A source close to Amini’s family told the US-based Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI) that Amini was sentenced to death.

    By the way this story is probably CIA horseshit to begin with.

    • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      16 days ago

      Poster: Iran is a shit hole and it is all Americas fault

      Same poster: This is a made up CIA story about Iran being a shit hole.

      So strange that the CIA has to make up stories about a country being shit that they helped ruin. Perhaps, just maybe it isn’t a made up sorry and Iran is just a shit hole?

  • Denfa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    17 days ago

    We can and should support the women of Iran by repeatedly bombing them and their families, destroying the cities they live in along with schools and hospitals, and possibly by obliterating the jail cell she’s being held in. I should probably add, this is sarcasm, because it also seems to be official US policy regarding the middle east in general.

    • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      17 days ago

      The USA armed terrorists who with shotguns and Starlink connections and killed their leader during negotiations all for not becoming a slave for Israel

  • tackleberry@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    5·
    16 days ago

    According to the Iranian newspaper Khorasan, which confirmed the judicial proceedings, Amini told the court she had posted the remarks while hallucinating after taking psychedelic mushrooms with friends and her defence argued it was a “slip of the tongue”.

    The presiding judge rejected her defence, reportedly asking: “Why, in that same hallucinatory state, did you not insult other individuals or opponents of the regime, such as America and Israel?”

    Amini’s death sentence is not final and remains subject to appeal before Iran’s supreme court.

    Good news here is that the ruling remains subject to appeal.

  • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    16 days ago

    The Republic of Iran is evil incarnate to its own people, and everybody else.

    The USA should stay out of it. But, instead, we’ve been a very poor example, from choosing to found Israel after WW2 all the way to today. We are totally invested in Israel (our 51st state), and therefore, will always be in conflict with a good deal of the middle east.

    Jerusalem has been Jewish, then Roman, then Muslim, then Christian, then Muslim again, now Jewish. These Abrahamic fundamentalists will always fight for the Holy Land and kill each other for all time, as they always have.

    The Jews should have been accepted into the USA after WWII, in my opinion, with no nation building and no CIA-backed coups in Iran. As it is, there’s no end to it at this point, the fundies will take us with them and drag us all into hell.

    • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      16 days ago

      There’s a great few episodes on behind the bastards about how this “fighting over the holy land” as we know it is definitely a modern phenomenon, fueld mostly by the British, and historically it was generally a peaceful and fairly multicultural place. It’s a myth there’s always been horrible fighting to make it seem like it’s inevitable and the problem can never be solved but that’s propaganda.

  • BilboBargains@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    17 days ago

    In other news, Iran is at war with America and its stooges following a failed coup attempt by America and its stooges.

  • MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    16 days ago

    This is horrible and awful. Nothing less. I’m commenting about 10 mind after reading an then looking at other news. This ladies plight is reflected right now in the US. Just change the names, places and pictures in the article to American.