‘Everyone is thinking about oil prices’: is Iran using the war to hide a surge in executions? (www.theguardian.com)
from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 02 Apr 16:11
https://sh.itjust.works/post/57854774

It has been almost three months since Peyvand Naimi, 30, was arrested in connection with the mass street protests that spread across Iran in January before being brutally suppressed. Since then, he has been detained for more than a month in solitary confinement, appeared in a televised forced confession, and has undergone two mock hangings, beatings, interrogation, psychological torture and starvation.

He has been accused of involvement in the deaths of security agents during the protests and of celebrating the death of Iran’s former supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, but his family insist he has done nothing wrong and that no formal charges have been made. He has been denied access to a lawyer; his relatives fear he now faces execution.

“My whole body was shaking when I heard about the torture he has endured,” says Zahra Hosseini*, a close relative. “It’s unbelievable. I am very worried.”

Naimi’s uncertain fate comes amid concerns that a surge in executions is taking place in Iran and has been “overshadowed” by the US-Israeli war on Iran. At least 145 people are confirmed to have been killed in 2026 so far, with an additional 400-plus executions reported but not verified, according to Iran Human Rights.

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atzanteol@sh.itjust.works on 02 Apr 20:06 next collapse

Lol the down votes on this article. I love how Iran became “good” because the US became “bad”.

pilferjinx@piefed.social on 02 Apr 20:18 collapse

Nah, this is put in front of our eyes to help this stupid war go down easier. All sides are shit, my boy.

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works on 02 Apr 20:35 collapse

If all sides are shit then this is relevant. Whether it “helps the war go down easier” or not. “My boy”

pilferjinx@piefed.social on 02 Apr 21:20 collapse

Is it relevant? Should the US bomb them even harder, my man?

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works on 02 Apr 21:23 collapse

Are you dull? You don’t think news of a government executing protesters is relevant news because “you just want to hate on the US?”

pilferjinx@piefed.social on 02 Apr 21:39 collapse

Do you honestly believe this piece isn’t manufacturing consent? It’s the intent that sickens me. What Iran is doing is shit, but what US-Israel is doing is Nazi levels of shit.

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works on 02 Apr 22:18 collapse

Too dumb to talk to. Bye.

pilferjinx@piefed.social on 02 Apr 22:23 collapse

Cya, my boy.

voaw@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 00:05 next collapse

“Is the Guardian using its platform to manufacture more consent for this evil, pointless war on Iran?”

ruuster13@lemmy.zip on 03 Apr 02:31 next collapse

Hey, all you mAnUfAcTuRiNg cOnSeNt folks: did Chomsky manufacture consent for Epstein’s victims? Iran’s regime has been murdering its citizens en masse for 50 years. Fuck off with making this about the USA.

EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com on 03 Apr 03:27 next collapse

Is Trump using the war to hide the files?

QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 07:51 next collapse

weird ass headline

Visstix@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 08:14 collapse

They hid it?