Death Penalty, Other Abuses “More Severe” in Iran during First Four Months of 2019
Death Penalty, Other Abuses “More Severe” in Iran during First Four Months of 2019
Iran Human Rights Monitor released a report on Monday detailing the Iranian regime’s human rights abuses over the course of April.
The report identifies specific examples of several familiar abuses, including the practice of political imprisonment the use of torture and medical deprivation as means of exerting pressure on such prisoners and the chronic overuse of the death penalty The execution of Mehdi Sohrabifar and Amin Sedaghat stands out in that report as one of the regime’s most internationally condemned actions during the given 30-day period. Last week the cousins made headlines in the global press and were named by Amnesty International in a statement regarding Iran’s persistent defiance of international law through its execution of persons who were less than 18 years old at the time of their alleged crimesSohrabifar and Sedaghat were accused of committing rape and robbery although their trial was subject to irregularities that are commonplace in Iranian jurisprudence. Both boys were reportedly deprived of legal counsel and beaten into providing confessions. But regardless of these facts or facts regarding their culpability for the alleged
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