Iran to hang 26-year-old in first reported execution over anti-Khamenei protests
https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/world/story/iran-hang-26-year-old-in-first-reported-execution-over-anti-ayatollah-khamenei-protests-erfan-soltani-hanging-death-sentence-2850856-2026-01-12
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As opposed the more summarily executed protestors they have just gunned down on the streets. There’s barely a hairsbreadth of difference.
Incredibly sad to be so cavalier with a life
they’ve already shot dead hundreds/thousands
Creating martyrs might not be the best course of action.
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blatant fear tactic. they think hanging him will instill order, it will only make him a martyr to rally behind.
Another martyr
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Capital punishment is wrong even for terrorists and murderers. However, it’s even worse when people protesting for democracy are executed.
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Lmao, so they will now craete martyrs for the cause ?
cool for defusing the situation
Hopefully it only adds oil to the fire so that the terrorist led regime can be overthrown.
We need to help Iran overthrow this regime!
Don’t let him die in vain. Topple the ridiculous religious government and bring freedom for generations of Iranians.
The only people who should be hanged are the country’s “leaders”
Oh yeah. I’m sure thatll calm everyone down. /s
When the regime/state has the power to execute its citizen, there is no telling where they draw the line. Maybe the definition of treason is being against your president/leader and that would be enough for the death penalty.
These are actual martyrs.
Fuck me I just wish we could stop this. He might be murdered right before the regime is overthrown this is so infuriating
Iran has the highest execution rate in the world. They’ll hang people over *anything,* assuming they even live long enough to see it.
It’s very difficult to lately, but I have to remind myself daily to not become complacent to hearing about these atrocities. People being murdered in Iran, Palestine, now even US citizens being murdered by ICE… hearing about these horrors day after day can have the effect of blending together, becoming more normalized, and less and less shocking.
This man is a human being with hopes and thoughts and loved ones. He has imagined what his life would become as he got older. Perhaps he already has children, or doesn’t, or has the desire to one day have a partner or family.
His life is about to end because of hatred, desire for power, and disregard for the sanctity of life.
I pray that one day humanity will look back on this time on earth as woefully primitive and crude. I hope that they look at us with pity, imagining us to be unsophisticated savages, not much more evolved than our ancestors who ruled the earth tens of thousands of years ago.
And I hope that as many of us as possible can recognize the need for change and do everything in our power to educate and nurture future generations to be better than us.
This man is just a drop in the bucket to the hundreds (maybe even thousands) killed over these past few weeks. He isn’t the only one.
May the Iranian people find freedom.
Always the old farts wanting to get rid of the good young people
“They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.” – Gandhi the movie or maybe the guy?
My girlfriends 18 little cousin was shot by a sniper 2 days ago. I spent the summer with his mother visiting. Sat with his brother all afternoon once he got the news. The grief and fear that the Iranian people carry is mind numbing . They are my second family and my heart bleeds for them . Delam barât misuze 🙁