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Iran Judiciary Urges Courts to ‘Speed Up’ Execution Verdicts
Ashaq Al-Awsat ^ | 7 April 2026 | Staff

Posted on 04/07/2026 12:23:50 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan

Iran's hardline judiciary chief on Tuesday urged courts to speed up verdicts linked to the US-Israeli war, including capital punishment, as activists sounded the alarm about surging hangings of convicts seen as political prisoners.

Since the war began on February 28, Iran has hanged seven people in connection with January protests, six convicted of membership of banned opposition group the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) and a dual Iranian-Swedish citizen on charges of spying for Israel.

Rights groups have warned dozens more are at risk of execution over the January protests or after being arrested on suspicion of helping the enemy during the current war.

"You need to speed up the issuing of sentences for executions and the confiscation of property," judiciary chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei told a televised meeting of senior judiciary officials.

Using existing laws on punishing espionage, "it is necessary to continue issuing judicial verdicts for elements and agents of the aggressor enemy with greater speed", he added.

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, who now lives in exile, said on Telegram that instead of defending Iranians in the face of threats by US President Donald Trump, Tehran’s response "is to accelerate executions, repression and confiscation of the opposition's property".

Two teenagers are among those who have been executed over the January protests, which were suppressed by authorities in a crackdown that left thousands dead, according to rights groups.

Authorities have branded those facing hanging over those protests as "terrorists" who acted on behalf of Israel and the United States, but rights groups have said they were convicted in "grossly unfair" trials.

"In the midst of the ongoing war, the execution of death sentences for protesters and political prisoners through non-transparent and hasty processes is seen as an attempt to instill fear and maintain control over society," said the US-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center rights group.

With wartime arrests continuing, national police chief Ahmad Reza Radan was quoted by state media as saying that 85 people had been arrested in 25 provinces for operating in an alleged "organized network" sending location information to Iran's enemies.

"The confessions of the accused and the full details of how they collaborated with the enemy will be published soon," he added.

Rights groups accuse Iranian authorities of using torture to extract from prisoners false confessions that are then broadcast during televisions news bulletins.


TOPICS: Hamas; Hezbollah; Iran; News/Current Events; War; War on Terror; Yemen
KEYWORDS: executions; hamas; hangings; hezbollah; iran; irgc; waronterror; yemen

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Authorities carry out the court-ordered amputation of the fingers of a purported thief.


Flogging is the normal punishiment by the morality police.


Hanging for protesting.
1 posted on 04/07/2026 12:23:50 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan
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To: MeanWestTexan

Stone Age


2 posted on 04/07/2026 12:26:46 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Resist Satan's Tyranny )
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To: MeanWestTexan

The evil crud are going to be unrepentant to the very end, aren’t they?


3 posted on 04/07/2026 12:32:40 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: MeanWestTexan

Wonder how many of the morality police like little boys and goats?


4 posted on 04/07/2026 12:49:56 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: MeanWestTexan

That “morality” police looks a LOT like Antifa.


5 posted on 04/07/2026 12:51:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Maybe the women ANTIFA. Too masculine to be a male ANTIFA.


6 posted on 04/07/2026 12:55:57 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: MeanWestTexan

“You need to speed up the issuing of sentences for executions and the confiscation of property,” Exactly what the other Aryans did - kill as many Jews as they can even though defeat was eminent, and confiscate all Jewish property. The Iranians are using the Nazi model. Their ‘Final Solution’.


7 posted on 04/07/2026 12:58:06 PM PDT by Judge Bean
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To: Resolute Conservative

Hamas does, there was a scandal at a training school for kiddie hamas recruits a couple years ago.


8 posted on 04/07/2026 1:18:50 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: MeanWestTexan

The country that Whoopi Cushion says is better than America.


9 posted on 04/07/2026 1:39:07 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: Texas Eagle

I wonder if she is ignorant or evil.

Or both.


10 posted on 04/07/2026 1:54:15 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Democrat party heroes. As long as they oppose Trump it is all fine


11 posted on 04/07/2026 2:00:20 PM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden )
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“Iran’s hardline judiciary chief on Tuesday urged courts to speed up verdicts linked to the US-Israeli war, including capital punishment...”

Someone is really in need of a Predator drone visit.


12 posted on 04/07/2026 2:14:59 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: MeanWestTexan

They have killed many more than 7. Some have been shot. Killings are happening in prisons where people can’t see. Some have taken place in police stations.

We need to blow the doors off Evin prison in Tehran and let the people out.


13 posted on 04/07/2026 2:15:16 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Israel needs to target these judges.


14 posted on 04/07/2026 2:26:39 PM PDT by roving
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To: MeanWestTexan

The US should issue a statement that any executions caried out for the next 6 months will be considered a war crime and those who participate will be held to account in the same way nazis were held account for their war crimes.


15 posted on 04/07/2026 2:32:42 PM PDT by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: MeanWestTexan

But I’m sure they’ll sign an agreement by 8:00PM tonight. 🙄


16 posted on 04/07/2026 2:38:00 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: roving

“Israel needs to target these judges.”

They have been, with great success. Courthouses, too.


17 posted on 04/07/2026 2:45:16 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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