{"id":97582,"date":"2023-05-08T08:23:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T08:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=97582"},"modified":"2023-05-08T11:21:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T11:21:51","slug":"iran-executes-two-men-over-charges-of-blasphemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/97582\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran executes two men over charges of blasphemy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013<\/strong> Iran executed two men on Monday over charges of blasphemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two men, Youssef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare, died at Arak Prison in central Iran. They had been arrested in May 2020, accused of being involved in a channel on the Telegram message app called \u201cCritique of Superstition and Religion,\u201d according to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIR), Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran judiciary&#8217;s Mizan news agency confirmed the executions, saying that the two men had insulted Islam\u2019s Prophet Muhammad and promoted atheism. The agency also accused them of burning the Holy Quran.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran remains one of the world\u2019s top executioners, having put to death at least 203 prisoners since the start of 2023, according to the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights (IHR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mahmoud Amiry-Moghaddam, head of the IHR, decried the executions as exposing the \u201cmedieval nature\u201d of Iran\u2019s theocracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The international community must show with its reaction that executions for expressing an opinion is intolerable,\u201d he said in a statement, adding that \u201cThe refusal of the international community to react decisively is a green light for the Iranian government and all their like-minded people around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2022, Iran executed at least 582 people, up from 333 people in 2021, according to Iran Human Rights. 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