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[Rick Halperin]

Nov. 10




IRAN:

Maryam Rajavi wants to end the death penalty in Iran


Under the mullahs regime, Iran has the highest execution rate per capita in the 
world and this has been true for a long time. In fact, last year they came 
first in Amnesty International’s report on the death penalty in terms of the 
number of executions overall.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. There is a very real opportunity for us to 
see an Iran without the death penalty in our lifetime. An Iran that would also 
be free from corporal punishment, torture, and all forms of human rights 
abuses. That Iran is the Iran led by Maryam Rajavi and the Iranian Resistance.

Time and time again, Maryam Rajavi has made it clear that she opposes the death 
penalty and would ban it in Iran, along with torture and all human rights 
abuses. This would coincide with a reformation of the judicial system and the 
repeal of the mullahs’ Sharia Law.

Maryam Rajavi said: “Our plan for future is to put an end to the mullahs’ 
religious decrees. We reject the inhuman penal code and other abusive laws of 
this regime.

We believe Retribution is an inhuman law. We advocate laws that are based on 
forgiveness, compassion and humanity.”

The Iranian Resistance lives by this code, as evidenced by the actions of 
Massoud Rajavi - Maryam Rajavi’s husband and former Iranian Resistance Leader – 
who refused to violate the human rights of thousands of former Iranian Supreme 
Leader Ruhollah Khomeini’s agents.

These agents, who were captured during battles with the National Liberation 
Army of Iran and killed members of the Iranian Resistance, were released 
unharmed at the end of the war. Maryam Rajavi advises that this is the enduring 
tradition of the Iranian people’s resistance.

Maryam Rajavi advocates that the Iranian Resistance want an independent, 
dynamic and free judiciary that will work with a democratically elected 
government to defend freedom, equality, and sanctity of every citizen’s private 
life in order to benefit the Iranian people.

This would mean:
• An end to arbitrary arrests
• A ban on torture
• Respect for the presumption of innocence
• Giving defendants the right to a defence and a defence attorney
• Allowing victims of violence or abuse of any sort access to justice
• A ban on denying freedoms to individuals based on their religion or lack 
thereof

Maryam Rajavi’s plan for the future of Iran is that all citizens will enjoy 
genuine security and equal rights before the law. It would be a new order based 
on freedom, democracy and equality, where people can enjoy lives of freedom and 
prosperity.

Maryam Rajavi said: “We have chosen to persevere and fight on […so] that no 
youngster under 18 years of age would have to wait in the corridors of death in 
prison to reach legal age for execution; so that no mother would ever shed 
tears of grief for her executed child.

Our motivation for resistance till victory is not spite and revenge but our 
love for freedom and human rights.”

Maryam Rajavi advises that the Iranian Resistance will fight any battle and 
sacrifice their lives in order to bring this freedom to Iran.

(source: Iran News Update)




SOMALIA:

MILITARY COURT SENTENCES SOLDIERS TO DEATH FOR KILLING


Somali Military Court has on 5 November 2018 sentenced 2 members of armed 
forces to death for murder.

Mohamed Hashi Wasuge was found guilty of killing officer Said Mohamed Osman on 
30th August at a military training center in Mogadishu.

4 witnesses have testified before the court on how Hashi carried out the murder 
and tried to escape but was disarmed and arrested by other officers.

Officer Abdirizack Mohamed Jimale also carried out the similar offense of 
killing by murdering officer Qeys Khalif Salad in Lower Shabelle base on 27th 
July.

The sentenced ex-soldiers can appeal the case.

(source: handsoffcain.info)