ژورنال سایت خبری سیاسی ژورنال
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PDF-English Journal-03 October 2025-No32
On Monday, 29 September 2025, the Islamic Republic announced that Bahman Choubi Asl, a database specialist at a knowledge-based company, had been executed for allegedly spying for Israel.
Little is known about how the trial unfolded. Such is the fate of political prisoners in Iran. There is no requirement for detainees to have independent lawyers. No expectation of fair hearings for the accused. Defendants are not given the chance to defend themselves. What exists instead is flogging, torture and forced confessions.
One morning you wake to the news or read in the press that someone has been executed. The “crime” is whatever a regime judge—hand in hand with interrogators and torturers—chooses to “prove.” The sentence is swiftly carried out. Today it is this name; tomorrow it will be another. Today the charge is one thing; tomorrow it will be something else. With this inhuman process of trials, over 1000 people have been executed in Iran in just the first nine months of this year alone. More than a thousand lives extinguished, leaving behind grieving families, friends and communities. Children scarred forever by the loss of a parent. A society forced to live under the cleaver of the executioner.
This is how the Islamic Republic sustains itself. Indeed, its very survival to this day has been defined by brutality and bloodshed. As long as this regime exists, the machinery of executions will keep running—relentlessly, ceaselessly.
In response, every execution must be turned into a moment of mass denunciation of the regime. Alongside the families of the condemned, we must organise protests against the death penalty. Such protests are already widespread: dozens of prisons and hundreds of political prisoners are actively resisting executions. We must pressure international organisations and governments across the world to take strong action against the Islamic Republic’s use of executions.
This global struggle against the death penalty must grow broader and louder. Governments must be pushed, under unprecedented pressure from these campaigns, into taking effective measures against the regime’s crimes.
Editor: Patty Debonitas
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