Hassan only wants to fulfill one last wish, to see his daughter “one more time”. Your baby he was born only 18 days before he was arrested in the protests in Iran, after he and his wife spent ten years trying to become parents. Now that they have succeeded, they have sentenced him to death. “It doesn’t matter if I sign the confession or not; they they are going to kill meHassan declared.
This morning it has been known that he is in a coma from torture which, they denounce, has received: “The Iranian authorities force the detainees to sign against themselves,” says Rima Sheermohamadi, an Iranian translator and activist. However, her family has no information about her case, nor does she know when she could be executed. “His family doesn’t even know if the sentence has been carried out and they don’t know anything about him,” says the activist.
there is already at least 28 people sentenced to death, according to Amnesty International. Arash, a 36-year-old activist who has already entered prison three times, now also has cancer. Rima Sheermohamadi criticizes that “they have not allowed him to have bail, nor treatment for his illness.”
It is not known what he is accused of, nor what sentence he faces. In this sense, Carlos de las Heras, spokesperson on Iran for Amnesty International Spain, regrets that “the judgments in which the death penalty is requested they are not complying with the law international fair trial.
The executions do not stop, and they have a clear objective, according to what the humanitarian organizations say: “Silencing the social opposition in Iranand it is also a way of instilling fear”, stresses De las Heras. Meanwhile, the Iranian population demands an end to the executions and that the International Community get involved.
Source: Lasexta
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