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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.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

I'm not rooting for Iran, but after we murdered hundreds of school children on like day fucking 2, I have been rooting against the US.

If there is a way we can lose without Iran winning, then that would be ideal.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

Exactly. Rooting for the people of Iran doesn't make one a tankie. Being against US military intervention should mean being against US military intervention. One can be "rooting" against the US and still be rooting for the freedom of Iranians. Most of this fundamentalism is historically rooted in US interventionism in the first place! Destabilizing the country yet again will not help the women of Iran.

US killed those children in the first hour of war.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I'd very much like both governments to lose and the Iranian citizens to win

[–] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

Well, I know I'm rooting for this young lady. May both her oppressors and the people potentially bombing her be defeated and may she go free to live her life.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Only way is to vote Democrat.

It should come as no surprise that Iran is actually strengthened by the actions of this administration in practically every way. And sure as fuck Harris wouldn't have started Epstein Fury but instead carried on the legacy of her predecessor's JCPOA.

[–] no_name_dev_from_hell@programming.dev -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dronama bombed west Asia too, and he did impose sanctions on us.

Fuck your Republicans and Democrats. Rather see both go to hell.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

lol Trump has more civilian casualties under his belt than Biden and Obama combined. Not counting the previous Republican Bush administration.

Your false equivalence fallacy falls flat and any blood past that differential is on the hands of those who wrongly assert "Muh Both Sides!"

I live in Iran. Obama has blood on his hands because of sanctions and drone attacks on afghan weddings. There is no false equivalency, your system is a monstrosity.

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

We can definitely agree on that