The death sentences keep coming from Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court. In July, the court’s presiding judge, Iman Afshari, pronounced the dreaded verdict for Pakhshan Azizi, a prominent Iranian women’s rights activist and social worker, who had already spent the previous year in prison. The trumped-up charge: “Rebellion” against the Islamic Republic. The reality: She had angered the theocracy with peaceful activism for human rights.
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