The head of the judiciary of Iran This Tuesday, he urged the courts to speed up the sentences related to the guerra contra USA e Israel.
Also the capital punishmentwhile activists warned of a increase of the executions of alleged political prisoners.
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Since it began guerra on February 28, Iran ha hanged a seven people in relation to the demonstrations of January.
Six for belonging to the opposition group Muyahidines of the Pueblo of Iran (MEK), a organization opposition prohibitedalready an Iranian-Swedish citizen accused of spying on behalf of Israel.
advocacy groups human rights they warned the execution of tens of people for the protests January or as suspected of helping the enemy during the current conflict.
“It is necessary to accelerate the issuance of death penalty sentences and property confiscation sentences,” Gholam Hosein Mohseni Ejei told senior judicial officials in a meeting broadcast on television.
Resorting to existing laws against espionage “is necessary to continue issuing judicial sentences against elements and agents of the enemy aggressor more quickly,” he insisted.
More executions
The Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi who lives in exile, stated in Telegram that, instead of defending the Iranians from the threat posed by the American president Donald Trumpthe republic islamic accelerates “executions, repression and confiscation of opposition properties.”
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Among those executed for the January protests were two teenagers arrested during the campaign of repression of the authoritieswhich left thousands of deadaccording to organizations human rightswho denounced “extremely unfair” trials.
“In the midst of the current war, the execution of political prisoners and protesters through hasty and non-transparent processes is considered an attempt to incite fear and maintain control of society,” said the human rights organization Abdorrahman Boroumand Center, based in the United States.
Organizations like that accused the authorities Iranians to resort to torture to get confessions false statements from the detainees, which are then transmitted television.
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