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

    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.

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      2 hours 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?