Rights groups warn of Tehran regime’s increasing use of executions to suppress dissent, with at least 600 this year
Human rights groups have raised the alarm over the growing number of death sentences and executions in Iran, after reports that a 23-year-old woman, Najmeh Amini, has been sentenced to death for blasphemy over a social-media post.
Amini, an accounting student, is being held in Vakilabad prison in the north-east city of Mashhad. She has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison and death in separate cases heard by a revolutionary and a criminal court.
A source close to Amini’s family told the US-based Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI) that Amini was sentenced to death on charges of “sab ol-nabi” (insulting the prophet). She was reportedly arrested following online monitoring by Iran’s Cyber Police (Fata). The exact content of her posts has not been publicly disclosed.
It’s not an excuse, it’s an explanation. The thread started with asking how Iran even got to this point. So long as the US exists, you’re gonna get destabilization in countries with resources.
Speaking of Gaza, usually, killing people is bad, right? But would you focus on the October 7th incident, deploring Hamas and their attack? Or rather look at the historical context that lead to that point (Israel’s colonialism and genocide) and focus on the fact that it is still active?
I don’t think “someone was mean to me” is a valid explanation for systemic murder of dissidents. You can provide all the historical context for literally every evil choice ever made, but why?
For example, “Think about the reparations Germany had to pay” would be a bizarre comment in a thread about Holocaust remembrance.
Well good thing that’s not what I said.
It would be great if Iran’s government wasn’t executing their citizens for bogus reasons. All of us in the thread are against that. We can also point out that so long as America goes around destabilizing other regions, this will keep happening. Not just in Iran.
Yeah that would be weird, especially since the Holocaust and the rise of Nazi Germany was due to capitalism as a whole, and the rise of antisemitism, racism, xenophobia and homophobia in the west.
It would be strange if I were to write something like the bottom paragraph, encourging others not to repeat the same mistakes that led the Nazis to be a thing, and then for you to say “Just because the people were affected by capitalism doesn’t excuse their behaviour”.