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Iranian woman handed death sentence for ‘blasphemy’ in social media post (www.theguardian.com)
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Rights groups warn of Tehran regime’s increasing use of executions to suppress dissent, with at least 600 this year

Human rights groups have raised the alarm over the growing number of death sentences and executions in Iran, after reports that a 23-year-old woman, Najmeh Amini, has been sentenced to death for blasphemy over a social-media post.

Amini, an accounting student, is being held in Vakilabad prison in the north-east city of Mashhad. She has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison and death in separate cases heard by a revolutionary and a criminal court.

A source close to Amini’s family told the US-based Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI) that Amini was sentenced to death on charges of “sab ol-nabi” (insulting the prophet). She was reportedly arrested following online monitoring by Iran’s Cyber Police (Fata). The exact content of her posts has not been publicly disclosed.

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[–] 0 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

Go spread your bad Hasbara elsewhere. https://electronicintifada.net/content/debunking-lie-israel-created-hamas/51350

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

    You accuse other news sources of being zionist propaganda and then show me an article who quotes pro-Hamas scholars. But anyway I will humor you.

    The only thing this article probably accurately portrays is how Hamas originated, not how it evolved. This article can only reliably refute that Israel did not create Hamas, which also is not really my claim or the majority of wikipedia article's claim (although it does cite interviews from some Israeli officials claiming this, that is not really any proof). Empowering is not the same thing as creating. Somehow this article glosses over some of the more tangible evidences that this claim is built upon like how the Israeli military doing nothing in the 1980 riots despite them being quite trigger happy at the slightest commotion. Israel quite often stood by when the fundamentalists battled more pro-secular wings which under normal stances would be something contrary to a state which wants to "root out Islamism" from their neighborhood.

    The article also says that Zionists are spreading these rumors as a cudgel to keep Nethanyahu in check, which funny enough only makes sense if there is some truth behind it so that it can actually be used as blackmail. So that makes me believe that Israeli state supported Hamas even more. You can also have a look at this related article if you are actually reading anything I am putting here

    That article quoting pro-hamas scholars as evidence is the same as me quoting a nationalist Israel news article as a source. Atleast I try to keep my sources varied. Also I am sure you can see the circular logic in calling the act of accusing Israel of actually funding instability in the region and using that as a casus belli for genocide a "Hasbara". How does that even help Israel? Israel has been using all its PR apparatus to convince the rest of the world that they are the "good guys", this goes completely against that.

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