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IRAN - Hardliner Clerics Demand More Executions, Amputations

December 24, 2022:

Hardliner Clerics Demand More Executions, Amputations
An influential hardliner clerical group in addition to executions demands punishing Iranian protesters by cutting fingers and toes instead of just exiling them.
In a statement Saturday, the Association of Qom Seminary Teachers urged the authorities to continue executions but use the amputation punishment to deter people from joining the protests instead of lenient punishments in the law such as exile.
The association (Jame’e Moddaresin-e Howzeh Elmiye-ye Qom) suggested that anyone who “instigates fear in society” -- supposedly by participation in anti-government protests -- is belligerent (mohareb) which in Iran's Sharia-based laws is punishable by death, crucifixion, severance of limbs, and/or exile.
Ayatollah Abbas Ka’abi, a member of the clerical group, said last week that despite normal practice in the case of murders where victims’ families can practice the “right to blood” – that is demand retribution in kind (death sentence), ‘blood money’, or forgive -- the “imam” of the society should punish a belligerent protester even if the family forgives the killer.
Another member, Ayatollah Mohsen Araki, said Friday that those who participate in the protests, whether this includes direct involvement in the killing of government forces or not, should be considered as belligerents and be found guilty of “corruption on earth.”
The clerics, who are loyal followers of Iran’s ruler Ali Khamenei and are regime insiders benefitting from power and perks, simply twisted a 1,400-year-old vague concept of a crime to fit the regime’s agenda against dissent.
“The severing of fingers of one hand and toes of the opposite foot could be effective as a deterrent punishment” if a person “instigates fear in society, without the involvement of the [opposition] media and without urging others to follow suit,” the clerics of the powerful association suggested while arguing that the ‘exile’ option is too lenient to “prevent crime”.
Several Shiite religious scholars this month voiced their opposition to this interpretation of Islamic law, but the harsh approach is what the regime prefers.
Besides intellectuals, politicians and activists in Iran, some high-ranking clerics and former officials such as the prominent scholar Ayatollah Mostafa Mohaqeq-Damad have condemned protester executions or urged leniency.
A top Sunni cleric, Mowlavi Abdolhamid Esmail-Zehi, who leads the Sunni Friday congregation of Zahedan in the capital of the restive province of Sista-Baluchestan, argued this Friday that the death sentences passed on protesters were not religiously justifiable and warned about the consequences of such harsh punishments. “No ruler has such authority,” he said defiantly.
The international community including various rights organizations and activists, western officials, and politicians have also condemned the recent executions and urged the government to put an end to death sentences. In the past two weeks many European parliamentarians have also offered political sponsorship to detained protesters who are in imminent danger of execution or being sentenced to death.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202212246315

(Source: iranintl.com)

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PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING TRANSGENDER PERSON IN CHARSADDA
IRAN - Hamidreza and Mohsen Nejati executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on December 28
IRAN - Davoud Yousefi and Ebrahim Ajali executed in Karaj on December 28
GUYANA: COURT OF APPEAL REFUSES TO DECLARE THE DEATH PENALTY UNCONSTITUTIONAL
IRAN - Davoud Rahmatali executed in Shiraz on December 28
DR CONGO: MILITARY COURT UPHOLDS NINE DEATH SENTENCES
IRAN ā€“ Italy. Italy urges Iran to stop executions and open dialogue with protesters
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj on December 28
VIETNAM: HANOI WOMAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
IRAN - At Least 100 Protesters Facing Execution or Death Sentences
JORDAN: COURT RULES EXECUTION BY HANGING FOR MAN WHO KILLED ANOTHER IN 2005
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IRAN - Soha Etebari, 12, killed by the armed forces of the regime on December 25
IRAN - Elias Raisi and Ayoub Rigi executed in Zahedan on December 24
IRAN - Mohammad Ghobadlou appeal against the death sentence rejected
IRAN - Nizamuddin Burhanzahi executed in Iranshahr on December 23
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IRAN - 3 unidentified men executed in Shiraz on December 22
IRAN - Abdullah Shahozahi executed in Shiraz on December 21

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