Sunday, September 19, 2021

 

Over 431,000 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 547 cities across Iran, according to reports tallied daily by the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as of Thursday, Sept 19.



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The Revolutionary Court of Ahvaz in Iran, sentenced defense lawyer Farzaneh Zilabi to one year in prison. The court also deprived her of traveling abroad for two years. Ms. Zilabi was exonerated of charges of “assembly and collusion against the state” and “disseminating lies against and insulting the [mullahs’] leader.” But the Revolutionary Court of Ahvaz convicted her of “propaganda against the State” and sentenced her to one year in prison and a two-year ban on traveling abroad. https://tinyurl.com/te6c5t35

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Three women were hanged in Gohardasht Prison, bringing the number of women executed in Iran since 2013 to 121, amounting to an average of 15 women executed every year. According to reports from Iran, seven prisoners, including three women, were hanged in Gohardasht Prison on Wednesday, September 8, 2021. Gohardasht Prison is also known as Rajaei-Shahr Prison and is in Karaj, situated 20 kilometers west of Tehran. The Women committee of the Iranian resistance NCRI added that it is unclear why the three women were executed and from which prison they had been transferred to Gohardasht for execution. The report from Iran says that the three women were hanged a few hours after the four men, one of whom has been identified as Abdul Rahim Khani, a drug-related convict. No official source in Iran has announced these executions yet. Some 230 executions have been carried out in Iran since January 2021. https://tinyurl.com/3n43w4ee