Amnesty International today (Monday 30 January) appealed to the international community to bring pressure on Iran to end the wave of political executions there. The worldwide human rights organization’s call for a halt to the killings came in a statement submitted for the 45th session of the United...

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Since July, Amnesty International has recorded the names of hundreds of political prisoners, members or supporters of many opposition factions, executed or in danger of execution in Iran. Among them are prisoners of conscience, prisoners serving sentences of imprisonment, or whose terms of...

Since July, Amnesty International has recorded the names of hundreds of political prisoners, members or supporters of many opposition factions, executed or in danger of execution in Iran. Among them are prisoners of conscience, prisoners serving sentences of imprisonment, or whose terms of...

Since July, Amnesty International has recorded the names of hundreds of political prisoners, members or supporters of many opposition factions, executed or in danger of execution in Iran. Among them are prisoners of conscience, prisoners serving sentences of imprisonment, or whose terms of...

Amnesty International is deeply concerned by a spate of executions which has been taking place in Iran over the last five months. Drs Danesh and Bagheri, for whom a medical action was issued in September, have now been executed. Please see the external details attached.

The Iranian authorities have been carrying out the biggest wave of secret political executions since the early 1980s. Amnesty International said today (Tuesday 13 December). The worldwide human rights organization said the evidence for mass executions was now indisputable, with evidence coming from...

Since July, Amnesty International has recorded the names of hundreds of political prisoners, members or supporters of many opposition factions, executed or in danger of execution in Iran. Among them are prisoners of conscience, prisoners serving sentences of imprisonment, or whose terms of...

Amnesty International has received information that Soraya Ali Mohammadi may be in imminent danger of execution. She is a member of the People’s Fadayan Organization of Iran reportedly sentenced to death in 1984 but her sentence was later commuted, first to 15 then to nine years’ imprisonment. She...

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Amnesty International has received further names of political prisoners, who are reported to be in imminent danger of execution. They were arrested in 1980 or 1981 and many may be prisoners of conscience convicted of distributing leaflets or of disturbing the peace at political rallies. All were...

In recent months Amnesty International has been gravely concerned by a new wave of political executions in Iran, believed to be the largest since the early 1980s when thousands of political prisoners were executed after summary or no trial.