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Iran uses community sentences to curb incarceration rate Tuesday, 13 July 2021 9:39 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 13 July 2021 9:39 PM ] Yousef Jalali Press TV, Tehran Iranian judges have handed creative alternatives to imprisonment for lesser included crimes. Criminals charged with misdemeanors can now do community services instead of going to jail. A movie director in Iran's province of Khorasan Razavi was sentenced to producing a documentary about the wildlife. He was convicted of poaching. Such sentences are now becoming a trend in Iran;...
share Print An Iranian couple allegedly confessed to drugging and dismembering the man's adult son and discarding the remains in trash cans west of Tehran, in a chilling case that has shocked the country. The arrest of 81-year-old Akbar Khorramdin and his wife for the killing of Khorramdin's 47-year-old son, Babak, a filmmaker, led to admissions that they had also killed a missing daughter and son-in-law. The tragedies cast light on grave domestic crimes seemingly fueled by perceptions of honor and sexual propriety in Iranian society, as well as on laws eroding protections for potential victi...
Tue, 25 May 2021 10:21 UTC In a case that has shocked Iran, filmmaker Babak Khorramdin was allegedly killed and dismembered by his parents. An Iranian couple allegedly confessed to drugging and dismembering the man's adult son and discarding the remains in trash bins west of Tehran, in a chilling case that shocked the country. The arrest of the 81-year-old Akbar Khorramdin and his wife for the killing of Khorramdin's 47-year-old filmmaker son, Babak, led to admissions that they had also killed a missing daughter and son-in-law. The tragedies cast light on grave domestic crimes seemingly fuele...
17 May 2021, 15:37 UTC The horrifying murder of a 20-year-old gay man in Iran has shed new light on how the criminalization of consensual same-sex sexual conduct and gender non-conformity perpetuates systemic violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI), said Amnesty International in a detailed analysis issued to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersex-phobia and Transphobia. His murder also highlights the urgent need for the Iranian authorities to enact and implement laws to protect the human rights of LGBTI peo...