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Officials raise the alarm about ‘execution spree’ in Iran
Global News
“We are facing genocide,” Naela Quadri Baloch said. “They are killing Baloch in cold-blooded manner in the name of enemies of God.”
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A heart-wrenching video of a young Iranian girl begging authorities in Salmas Prison in northwest Iran to spare her father’s life a day before his execution has gone viral, amid a surge in executions in the country.
Her father, Abdullah Khan-Mohammadi, was hanged despite his daughter’s tearful pleas.
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The founder of Oslo-based non-governmental organization Iran Human Rights, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, said in the month of May alone at least 59 people have been executed in Iran and since the start of this year, at least 223 people.
“You don’t find these numbers anywhere else,” he said.
Amiry-Moghaddam said the regime’s “killing machine is accelerating.”