{"id":6522,"date":"2025-08-05T22:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T22:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/?p=6522"},"modified":"2025-08-05T22:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T22:57:13","slug":"rushed-confirmation-of-babak-shahbazis-death-sentence-without-observing-legal-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/prisoner\/rushed-confirmation-of-babak-shahbazis-death-sentence-without-observing-legal-standards","title":{"rendered":"Rushed Confirmation of Babak Shahbazi\u2019s Death Sentence Without Observing Legal Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"54\" data-end=\"197\"><strong data-start=\"149\" data-end=\"166\">5 August 2025<\/strong><br data-start=\"166\" data-end=\"169\" \/><strong data-start=\"169\" data-end=\"197\">News Category: Prisoners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"199\" data-end=\"390\"><strong data-start=\"199\" data-end=\"227\">Breathing in Confinement<\/strong> \u2013 The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Babak Shahbazi, previously issued by Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court on charges of \u201cespionage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"392\" data-end=\"874\">According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran, Babak Shahbazi had been sentenced to death by Judge Salavati on charges including \u201cspying for Israel\u201d and \u201csending a letter to Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, expressing willingness to cooperate with that country in the war against Russia.\u201d The Supreme Court review process was conducted in an irregular and unusually hasty manner, with the verdict upheld in just one day.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"876\" data-end=\"1009\">Babak Shahbazi has now been transferred to Ghezel Hesar Prison, which may signal the imminent implementation of his death sentence.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1011\" data-end=\"1331\">According to human rights standards, issuing and upholding a death sentence through a process lacking transparency and minimum guarantees of fair trial\u2014particularly when the defendant denied the charges in court and no reliable or conclusive evidence was presented\u2014constitutes a clear violation of fair trial principles.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1333\" data-end=\"1493\">This action, coupled with the unusually rapid judicial process, reflects the instrumentalisation of the judiciary to instil fear and suppress political dissent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 August 2025News Category: Prisoners Breathing in Confinement &ndash; 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