Sunday 16th Dec 2018
By Mahmoud Hakamian
The Mayor of the 5th District in Paris hosted a conference against the death penalty in Iran, which was organized by the Committee for the Support of Human Rights in Iran (CSDHI) on Wednesday, October 10th, 2018 marking the World Day Against the Death Penalty. Speaking at the conference were mayors, politicians, and celebrities.
Mahmoud Hakamian
October 10th marks the World Day Against the Death Penalty. In the first 6 months of this year, there have been 176 confirmed executions in Iranian prisons. Many of the prisoners who have been sentenced to death in Iran have committed crimes that do not warrant such a punishment. For example, many of the people that have been executed in the country were imprisoned for drug-related crimes.
By Staff Writer
Arash Sadeghi, a human rights defender and prisoner of conscience, is a critically ill Iranian that has been imprisoned since June 2016 after being arrested in September 2014. He was arrested at his stationary shop with his wife and two friends by IRGC agents and was sentenced to 15 years in prison for “insulting the founder of the regime”, collusion against national security”, “spreading lies in cyberspace” and “propaganda against the state”.
By Mohammad Sadat Khansari
The 1988 massacre in Iran is one of the most horrific atrocities of recent times. During the summer of that year, the then-Supreme Leader of Iran issued a fatwa ordering the execution of political prisoners and dissidents. Around 30,000 people were executed, most of them members of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) – the main opposition to the Iranian regime.
By Staff Writer
The Iranian regime is known for its suppression of the people of Iran and its blatant disregard of human rights.
International human rights organisations have called on the regime to stop its inhumane treatment of prisoners, its medieval forms of punishment, its repression, its censorship, and so on.
By Staff Writer
On Friday, September 14, 2018. 30 years after the massacre of 30000 political prisoners in Iran on 1988, a conference was held in European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, this conference was sponsored by the following Non-Governmental Organizations:
