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Jordanian police corner off the area where prominent Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar was shot dead outside a court in Amman. Photo: AFP

Jordan Executes 15 People, 10 Convicted of Terror Charges

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 4, 2017 | Middle East

Jordan executed at dawn on Saturday 15 death row prisoners, the majority of whom were convicted of terrorism charges, Information Minister Mahmoud al-Momani said, in a further break with the moratorium on executions the country had observed between 2006 and 2014. Ten...

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Gulf Study Exposes Systematic Executions in Iran, a Mechanism to Protect an Oppressive Regime

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 5, 2016 | Features, Profiles

London- A Gulf-prepared paper exposed earth-shattering statistics on the systematic executions carried out in Iran since the rise of the cleric regime in 1979. Iran’s theocratic regime, founded by Ruhollah Khomeini, has long enforced law through the brutal excess of...

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Pakistani human rights activist and lawyer Asma Jahangir addresses a protest rally in Lahore on April 4, 2009 Getty Images

Tehran Demands International Praise over Carried Executions

by Adel al-Salmi | Sep 2, 2016 | World

London-Iran’s chair to the judiciary’s committee for human rights Mohammad-Javad Larijani, brother to Iran’s Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani, demanded that the West and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran Ahmad Shaheed to...

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Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi talks during a news conference in Tehran, March 15, 2008. (photo by REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah)

1980’s Execution Haunts Top Iranian Officials

by Adel al-Salmi | Aug 31, 2016 | World

London- Heated controversy sparked-off 20 days ago as a recording for Iran’s Deputy Supreme Leader Hussein-Ali Montazeri surfaced. The recording sounds Montazeri’s loud objection to many of the regime-carried death sentences in 1988. Montazeri’s controversial audio...

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Opinion: Iran Needs to Bury Khomeini’s Ghost

by Amir Taheri | Aug 19, 2016 | Opinion

More than 17 years after his death, the man who led the mullahs to power in Iran, Ayatollah Ruhallah Khomeini, is still at the center of the post-revolution debate that has divided Iranians to the point of inciting some to violence against each other. Last week the...