“Our inaction gives the green light to Iran to execute the protesters”


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MAINTENANCE. Director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran, Hadi Ghaemi believes that the international reaction to the regime’s repression is insufficient.




Interview by Armin Arefi

Mohsen Shekari and Majid-Reza Rahnavard, two Iranian demonstrators, were executed in four days by the Judicial Authority in Iran (photo illustration).
Mohsen Shekari and Majid-Reza Rahnavard, two Iranian demonstrators, were executed in four days by the judicial authority in Iran (photo illustration).
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VS’is the second protester executed in Iran in four days. After Mohsen Shekari was hanged Thursday morning at the age of 23 for having injured, according to the Judicial Authority, a bassidji pro-regime militiaman with a machete and blocking a street in the capital, it is Majid-Reza Rahnavard’s turn to lose life, also at the age of 23, following an expedited procedure. Sentenced to death on November 29 during an unfair trial, for having stabbed two bassidjis to death in Mashhad, in northeastern Iran, on November 17, the young protester was therefore hanged in public thirteen days more late.

Director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran (Chri), an American NGO that has been documenting human rights violations in the Islamic Republic for fifteen years, Hadi Ghaemi believes…


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