On Monday, May 8, Iran announced the execution of two individuals sentenced to death for blasphemy.
Mizan, Yousef Mehrad, and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare were executed in the Arak jail in central Iran, according to the Iranian judiciary’s official website.
They were imprisoned in May 2020 on suspicion of participating in the criticism of the Superstition and Religion Telegram channel, according to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom.
The panel stated that both victims were held in solitary confinement for months without contact with family members.
Mizan verified this on Monday, stating that the two ran a huge number of websites that advocated atheism, Islamophobia, and other anti-religious views.
The deaths, according to Iran Human Rights Director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, highlighted the “medieval nature” of theocracy in Iran.
“The international community must show with its reaction that executions for expressing an opinion are intolerable,” he stated in response to their murders. “The international community’s refusal to react decisively is a green light for the Iranian government and likeminded people around the world.”
Iran killed at least 582 people in 2022, up from 333 in 2021, according to Iran Human Rights. According to the most current Amnesty International report on executions, Iran is the world’s second-largest executioner, trailing only China, which is claimed to execute thousands of people each year.
