Iran has significantly increased executions in 2024, targeting dissenters like rapper Toomaj Salehi, reflecting the regime’s harsh stance on freedom of expression.
Iran's Human Rights NGOs reported 834 executions in 2023, with only 15% officially announced, sparking concerns about transparency.
The UN statement reported allegations that Palestinian women and girls had been arbitrarily executed in Gaza, frequently along with family members, including children.
The defendants were accused of illegally entering Iranian territory from Iraq's Kurdistan region to carry out a bombing operation.
Smith, convicted of a 1988 murder-for-hire, was a rare prisoner who had already survived one execution attempt.
Qobadlou was sentenced to death in late 2022, in the middle of the protests, on charges of killing a police officer and of "corruption on earth."
Kenneth Smith, convicted of murder, is scheduled to be executed in the state of Alabama on January 25 using nitrogen hypoxia.
IRNA state news said their mission entailed kidnappings, threatening and setting fire to vehicles and homes of unnamed targets and stealing their mobile phones.
The execution took place in a Zahedan jail in in Iran's southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province.
Hamas has a history of reporting that hostages were killed in airstrikes after they had been executed by the terrorist group.
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