6/19/2023 0 Comments Blasphemous full map![]() Other countries in the Middle East, like Saudi Arabia, also allow for death sentences to be imposed for blasphemy. ![]() It wasn't immediately clear when Iran carried out its last execution for blasphemy. “The refusal of the international community to react decisively is a green light for the Iranian government and all their like-minded people around the world.” “The international community must show with its reaction that executions for expressing an opinion is intolerable,” he said in a statement. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, who leads Iran Human Rights, decried the executions as exposing the “medieval nature” of Iran's theocracy. Mizan also accused them of burning a Quran, Islam's holy book, though it wasn't clear whether the men allegedly did that or such imagery was shared in the Telegram channel. The Mizan news agency of Iran's judiciary confirmed the executions, describing the two men as having insulted Islam's Prophet Muhammad and promoted atheism. And when we know authoritarian theocracies are desperate, they often turn to very, very extreme acts.” “I think that there is a sense that Iran is increasingly desperate. I don’t believe this is just a one-off event,” Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, a member of the Congressionally mandated commission, told The Associated Press. Both men faced months of solitary confinement and could not contact their families, the commission said. Commission on International Religious Freedom. They had been arrested in May 2020, accused of being involved in a channel on the Telegram message app called “Critique of Superstition and Religion,” according to the U.S. The two men executed, Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare, died at Arak Prison in central Iran.
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