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.
Imagine living in a country of mental patients where if you insult their favorite storybook character, they have this burning urge to kill you. It’s manic obsession.
What kind of profit wants people to die in their name for an insult?
Nervous anti-Harry Potter noises
We’re seven levels deeper than “What did the Prophet literally want you to do?” Because a lot of this is seen as a very secular form of treason, subversion, or other form of espionage. Iranians are deeply paranoid, particularly of “Western” influences, because the state leadership believes it is used to cultivate double-agents for the purpose of sabotage or counter-revolution.
In some sense, it’s like walking into an airport with a big t-shirt that reads “Dis Guys Da Bomb!” and getting tackled by security. The thing they’re responding to isn’t a banal fashion choice.
If I was Iran, and the UK enlisted the CIA to overthrow my democratically elected prime minister to install a shah/dictator, because that prime minister was going to nationalize oil infrastructure to improve the lives of Iranians, I’d be paranoid about western influence also.
Thanks to social media, everyone lives in that country now.
The USA is only a half step behind.
Half a step? We’re all set to do public executions, idk about half step, maybe a goose step…
Comparing the execution of Nidal to this woman is a little strange. I’m not advocating for public executions, at least I hope that’s obvious, but to claim they’re even remotely similar is an extreme exaggeration.
Idk man, it’s the publicity, not the execution exactly. The spectacle…
The half step is that we can still insult Jesus without being executed… for now.
And I’m starting to get a spider-sense-tingle whenever I bad mouth Trump these days.
The US? Nah, couldn’t imagine living there.
Sounds just like living in the US right now
If you live in America know that our regime is taking notes on these features of Iran’s.
Prophet*, but you’re on the right track for SOME places.