Rights groups say that as a young prosecutor in Tehran, Ibrahim Raisi sat on a “death committee” overseeing the execution of hundreds of political prisoners in the Iranian capital. Now three decades later president, and seen by many as Iran’s potential next supreme leader, Raisi is presiding over an uncoordinated response to domestic and international […]
Iran has already executed two people involved in unrest that erupted in September after the custodial death of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by morality police for enforcing the Islamic republic’s strict dress code for women. Was. Amnesty International has said Iranian authorities are seeking the death penalty for at least 26 […]
Iran executed a protester on Thursday who was convicted of stabbing a security guard and closing a road in the capital Tehran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. The nationwide protests following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman, on September 16 are one of the biggest challenges to the Islamic Republic […]