Iran
Iran: a child of the gallows
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Iran
Sepideh Qoliyan is currently serving an 18.6-year prison sentence in Iran’s Gharchak Prison for women after being arrested at workers’ rights protests in the city of Shush, Khuzestan Province, and publicly stating that she and fellow detainees had been tortured in the custody of the Intelligence Ministry.
Source — Center For Human Rights
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This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Ouest France
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Iran
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Huffington Post
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Iran
Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, has pardoned or commuted prison terms of 1,049 convicts found guilty by various Iranian courts.
The pardon was granted at the request of the country’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr,…
Source — Iran Front Page News
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Iran
A Parliamentary committee in Iran has blocked an attempt by security agencies to delay for a year a parliamentary vote on an amendment that could drastically reduce death penalty sentences for drug-related crimes.
“Unfortunately, some security and government agencies wrote a letter requesting that the…
Source — Payvand
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Overcrowding
Iran
Iran’s penitentiary chief refers to a 333 percentage increase in prisoner figures between 1985 and 2017. Accordingto Tasnim agency, Asghar Jahangiri said on Monday that Iran holds the second place for prison population among Islamic countries and 6th among Asian countries. Saying that Iran’s world ranking…
Source — Iran Focus
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