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Date: 10 February 2014
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Death
sentence carried out on ethnic Arab Hashem Shaabani, accused of being an
"enemy of God" and a threat to security.
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Iranian poet executed for 'waging war on God'
Death sentence carried out on ethnic Arab Hashem Shaabani, accused of
being an "enemy of God" and a threat to security.
Last updated: 10 Feb 2014 04:37
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A human rights groups says more than 300 people have been executed
since Rouhani came to power [EPA]
An Arab-Iranian poet and human rights activist, Hashem Shaabani, has been
executed for being an "enemy of God" and threatening national security,
according to local human rights groups.
Shaabani and a man named Hadi Rashedi were hanged in unidentified prison on
January 27, rights
groups<http://www.iranhrdc.org/english/news/press-statements/1000000428-iri-executes-two-ahwazi-arab-men.html#.Uvfg8WLVjms>have
said.
Shaabani, who spoke out against the treatment of ethnic Arabs in the
province of Khuzestan, had been in prison since February or March 2011
after being arrested for being a Mohareb, or "enemy of God".
Last July, the Islamic Revolutionary Tribunal found Shaabani and 13 other
people guilty of "waging war on God" and spreading "corruption on earth".
The 32-year-old was the founder of Dialogue Institute and was popular for
his Arabic and Persian poems. In 2012, he appeared on Iran's state-owned
Press TV, where human rights groups say he was forced to confess to
"separatist terrorism".
According to BBC Persian, officials from the Ministry of Information
informed the condemned men's families that they had been hanged, and they
would be subsequently informed on the location of the men's burial site.
Shaabani was moved from the area to an unspecified prison before his death,
it was reported.
Iran executed 40 people over two
weeks<http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/01/iran-executes-40-two-weeks-rights-group-201411764616238893.html>
of
that month, according to Amnesty International. According to the Iran Human
Rights Documentation Centre (IHRDC) more than 300 people have been executed
since Hasan Rouhani became president in August.
In the past, Tehran has said the death penalty was essential to maintain
law and order, and that it was applied only after exhaustive judicial
proceedings. Most of the executions in January were for drug related
offences, according to Amnesty.
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