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.

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    13 hours ago

    Your examples are some opinion pieces to cleanse TheGuardian of having to do actual journalism. Opinion pieces are not representative of TheGuardians editorial board or their journalists. They mean nothing.

    This is the pro-genocide blood libel propaganda TheGuardian has spread using their own name at the height of the genocide to manufacture consent for Israel:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/18/evidence-points-to-systematic-use-of-rape-by-hamas-in-7-october-attacks

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      One, not all of them are opinion pieces,

      Two, even after being able to list tens of articles I specifically said this still DOESN’T mean this is their editorial stance point despite you claiming that their editorial stance point is pro zionism only after showing two articles. Something doesn’t add up here. Also fuck Hamas by the way, I don’t know if that article reflects anything truthful but Hamas is a terrorist organization and just like genocide, it should be condemned. I understand the urge to hurt the other side after decades of opression and genocide but still won’t side with killing civilians as a rational person. I can’t condemn them for all this. If I saw my kid get blown to pieces I would probably join them too. But it doesn’t mean I see them as the solution to this ongoing genocide or that I would expect a mainstream media to completely side with them. It is unrealistic and unreasonable. Not to mention Hamas was a actually supported by Israel for a long time so supporting Hamas is kind of cyclic. They are likely infiltrated by Israeli agents (of Palestinian origin) and being used as puppets in this opression to create casus belli for Israel.

      Three, being able to release REGULAR opinion pieces about genocide and actual articles about the extent of destruction going in in Gaza is much more than any mainstream western media is doing right now. And I believe this has had positive impact on regular pro palestine marches in the UK some of which reached to almost half a million in attendance. Stop with this “anyone who doesn’t do stuff exactly the way I want them to is a Zionist” rhetoric, doesn’t help you, doesn’t help anyone and makes you look like a bot.