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 by AFP Staff Writers Tehran (AFP) Jan 12, 2022
Two former Iranian soldiers have been executed over the 2019 deaths of two police officers, a senior judiciary official said Wednesday. "The death penalty was applied against two perpetrators of an act of terrorism committed in February 2019," the head of the judicial authority in western Lorestan province, Mohammad Razm, was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA. He did not specify the date of the executions. Razm had said in 2019 that two former soldiers had shot at police at a petrol station in provincial capital Khorramabad, causing a tanker to explode and resulting in the death of two officers. He said the soldiers had been expelled from the army, without providing reasons for their expulsion. According to rights group Amnesty International, Iran is second only to China in its use of the death penalty, with at least 246 people executed in 2020.
Iran sends French-Iranian academic back to prison: supporters Paris (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 Iran has sent back to prison from house arrest French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, her Paris-based support group said Wednesday, a shock development in the midst of hugely delicate talks on the Iranian nuclear drive. Adelkhah was sentenced in May 2020 to five years in prison for conspiring against national security, accusations her supporters have always denounced as absurd. She was allowed home in Tehran in October 2020 with an electronic bracelet. She is one of at least a dozen Western n ... read more
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