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Shabnam Parastesh (34) was executed today
FIVE PEOPLE, AMONG THEM AT LEAST ONE WOMAN, WERE HANGED IN TEHRAN TODAY August 27
27 August 2008
The news agency hasn’t identified those executed by name.
According to reliable sources from Iran, one of those executed today was the 34 years old woman, Shabnam, who was convicted of killing her husband Mojtaba.
Iran Human Rights is investigating the (...)
Sentenced to death for an offence committed at 15:
THE MINOR OFFENDER BEHNAM ZARE WAS EXECUTED TODAY
26 August 2008
Behnam was convicted of a murder allegedly committed when he was 15 years old!
Neither his lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei nor his family were informed that the execution was about to happen today, wrote Mr. Mostafaei in his blog.
Iran Human Rights will follow with further details later.
Last Tuesday, another minor offender, Reza Hejazi was hanged in the (...)
One man was hanged in Tabriz today August 24
24 August 2008
The man who was identified as Bahram, was convicted of murdering his sister in law in 1989 according to the report.
He was executed today, after being 19 years in prison. No details are given about how old "Bahram" was at the time of committing the alleged (...)
Another scheduled "minor" execution in the prison of Isfahan
Bahman Soleimani (Soleymani), convicted of a murder at the age of 15, is at imminent risk of execution
23 August 2008
According to the letter which Mr. Mostafaei wrote in his weblog, Bahman is at the prison of Isfahan and has been told that he will be executed within the coming days. He is convicted of murdering his grandmother when he was 15 years old.
Last week (...)
Amnesty Internationl:
Those responsible for the 1988 executions of the political prisoners in Iran should be prosecuted
23 August 2008
Iran: The 20th Anniversary of 1988 ’prison massacre’
Twenty years after the then Iranian authorities began a wave of largely secret, summary and mass executions in September 1988, Amnesty (...)
One man was hanged in Zahedan early Wednesday August 20
22 August 2008
He was identified as Bahram Nik-kho (age not given) who was charged with dryg trafficking and sentenced to death by the revolutionary court of the BAluchestan province, according to the report.
One man was hanged in Bojnord (northeast Iran) yesterday August 20
21 August 2008
He is identified as "Ali" and was convicted of murder according to the report. His age was not given in the report.
Two men were hanged in Tehran today August 19
20 August 2008
All together five people were executed today August 19, two in Tehran and three in Isfahan among them the minor offender Reza Hejazi who was convicted of a murder at the age of (...)
Along with the minor offender Reza Hejazi
Two other men were hanged in Isfahan today Tuesday August 19
19 August 2008
Two other men were hanged in the same prison early this morning according to the state run Ebrat news site. They were convicted of rape. Just one of them was identified as Asghar (...)
THE MINOR OFFENDER REZA HEJAZI WAS EXECUTED THIS MORNING
19 August 2008
Reza Hejazi was convicted of a murder allegedly committed when he was 15 years old. His family were informed yesterday evening about the scheduled execution. The execution was halted early this morning and his family and human rights defenders believed that he will nor be executed.
However he was (...)