2 MEN KILLED IN IRAN FOR BURNING QURAN
IRAN EXECUTED TWO MEN FOR BURNING QURAN AND FOR PROMOTING ATHEISM
On Monday, an execution was reported in the country of Iran; two men were hung to death by the officials of Iran. They were hung for having violated the Iranian rules by promoting atheism by burning the Quran which is considered insulting the Islamic religion.
Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare are the Quran burners who were arrested in 2022 May for maintaining a telegram channel after the name “Critique of Superstition and Religion,” were executed in the Arak Prison of Central Iran on Monday.
Mehrad was said to have connections with Fazeli Zare, who was a prime accused of running 20 anti-religion web organizations. It asserted that their “insults” were such awful that none of their actions were specifically brought up in the Supreme Court’s approval of the verdict that allowed the men to be executed.
Mizan also alleged individuals of destroying the Quran, Islam’s sacred book, however, it was unclear if the men in question did so or whether any such images were shared on the Telegram group.
This is not the first time we are seeing Iran do this; the country has always been one of the top executioners in the world. Iran is a country that stands on its Islamic morals and we saw Iran kill 100s for going against them. Since the start of 2023 itself Iran was said to have put 203 prisoners through execution and the reasons were very rarely blasphemy.
The string of assassinations in Iran, which includes people from various ethnic minority groups, comes following months of demonstrations over the September murder of Mahsa Amini, 22, after her detention by the country’s morality police have died down.
A minimum of four people were already executed for suspected offenses committed during the protests. The protests, which allegedly saw over 500 individuals jailed and 19,000 more detained, were one of Iran’s most serious assaults on theocracies since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
In the past year, an official delegation of United Nations human rights experts expressed worry over the criminalization of sacrilege in Iran. They also wrote to the Iranian officials asking them to de-criminalize atheism as the Iranian rules are against basic rights of speech and expression.
The two deaths by hangings on Monday represented the freshest in a string of executions over the last two weeks for a variety of charges. According to the Norway-based Iran Human Rights Association, Iran murdered 42 individuals in 10 days, at a pace of one person every six hours.
According to the report, the majority of the executions, which haven’t been widely publicized or remarked on by Iranian authorities, have been carried out on ethnic Baluchis convicted of narcotics offenses. A report by Amnesty International, Iran executes more people per year than all of the nations in the world excluding China.
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