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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    15 hours ago

    Only way is to vote Democrat.

    It should come as no surprise that Iran is actually strengthened by the actions of this administration in practically every way. And sure as fuck Harris wouldn’t have started Epstein Fury but instead carried on the legacy of her predecessor’s JCPOA.

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        7 hours ago

        lol Trump has more civilian casualties under his belt than Biden and Obama combined. Not counting the previous Republican Bush administration.

        Your false equivalence fallacy falls flat and any blood past that differential is on the hands of those who wrongly assert “Muh Both Sides!”

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          I live in Iran. Obama has blood on his hands because of sanctions and drone attacks on afghan weddings. There is no false equivalency, your system is a monstrosity.