{"id":6741,"date":"2025-09-12T21:06:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/?p=6741"},"modified":"2025-09-12T21:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:06:20","slug":"death-sentence-issued-against-pejman-toubereh-rizi-based-on-gross-human-rights-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/protesters\/death-sentence-issued-against-pejman-toubereh-rizi-based-on-gross-human-rights-violations","title":{"rendered":"Death Sentence Issued Against Pejman Toubereh Rizi Based on Gross Human Rights Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"66\" data-end=\"207\"><br data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"162\" \/><strong>12 September 2025<\/strong><br data-start=\"179\" data-end=\"182\" \/><strong>News Group: Prisoners \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"209\" data-end=\"445\"><strong>Breathing in Confinement \u2013<\/strong> A death sentence has been issued against a political prisoner held in Evin Prison on charges of corruption on earth (efsad fel-arz) and membership in the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"447\" data-end=\"973\">According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran, Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Amouzad, issued the ruling. <strong data-start=\"641\" data-end=\"665\">Pejman Toubereh Rizi<\/strong>, 31, from Kermanshah, was arrested in Tehran on 28 January 2025. Reports indicate that during his detention in Ward 209 of the Ministry of Intelligence, <strong>he was<\/strong> <strong>subjected to severe torture, including electric shocks and beatings, resulting in the loss of three teeth in the early days of his detention.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"975\" data-end=\"1546\">The judicial proceedings against him have been a blatant violation of fair trial principles and human rights standards. He was tried without access to an independent lawyer and under non-transparent conditions. Reports further suggest that the presiding judge threatened him with a death sentence unless he accepted the charges and cooperated with the Ministry of Intelligence, attempting to coerce him into making a forced confession. After rejecting these threats and refusing to admit to the charges, he was sentenced to death but refused to sign the issued verdict.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1548\" data-end=\"1901\">The issuance of such a sentence, based on threats and coerced confessions, not only lacks legal validity but also constitutes a clear violation of international human rights treaties. Conditioning a sentence on cooperation with security agencies is a blatant indication of judicial abuse of power and the lack of independence of the judiciary in Iran.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1903\" data-end=\"2244\">The Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran strongly condemns the issuance and execution of such rulings and calls for the <strong data-start=\"2019\" data-end=\"2088\">immediate annulment of the death sentence of Pejman Toubereh Rizi<\/strong>, his <strong data-start=\"2094\" data-end=\"2143\">unrestricted access to a lawyer of his choice<\/strong>, and an <strong data-start=\"2152\" data-end=\"2241\">independent international investigation into the torture and violations of his rights<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 September 2025News Group: Prisoners &ndash; Breathing in Confinement &ndash; A death sentence has been issued against a political prisoner held in Evin Prison on charges of corruption on earth (efsad fel-arz) and membership in the People&rsquo;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners&rsquo; Rights League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1013],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protesters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yHPi-1KJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6743,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions\/6743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}