Iran has executed three men, including 19-year-old Saleh Mohammadi from its national wrestling team, after they were accused of killing two police officers during protests in January. Rights groups argue that the trio were executed without a fair trial and had given confessions under torture.
CBS News contributor and Iranian activist @AlinejadMasih said the Iranian regime's decision to execute athletes is strategic as "they are the role models and heroes of millions of people" across the country.
"When an athlete joined the uprising and say no to regime, it breaks the propaganda tool of the entire regime," Alinejad said. https://t.co/xgL2hjBpff
Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada spoke about the contradictions of human nature:
“Some people dream of having a swimming pool at home, while those who have one hardly ever use it. Those who have lost a loved one feel a profound sense of loss, while others often complain about their living relatives. Those without a partner long for one, while those who have one often don't appreciate it. The hungry would give anything for a meal, while the satiated complain about the taste of their food. Those without a car dream of owning one, while those who have a car are always looking for a better one.”
The key to happiness is gratitude: truly seeing and appreciating what we already have, and understanding that somewhere, someone would give anything for what we take for granted.
Her name was Leonie, she was a 13-year-old Austrian girl.
While she was out with friends, 3 Afghan immigrants secretly put 11 ecstasy pills in her drink. Stunned and unable to defend herself, she was taken to the house of one of the three.
The ecstasy dose was way too high, the girl started overdosing but the 3 immigrants, completely indifferent to her suffering, began to undress her and took turns raping her, putting their hands around her neck, strangling her. All of it recorded by themselves on a mobile phone video.
That’s how Leonie died, naked, in atrocious suffering, while the beasts raped her. The autopsy would later confirm the cause of death was triple overdose and asphyxiation.
When they were done, they wrapped the body in a carpet and dumped it roadside, under a tree.
The girl’s body was found the next morning by some passers-by, wearing only her underwear and with clear strangulation marks on her neck.
One of the perpetrators fled to the United Kingdom, but was quickly tracked down in a hotel and extradited, the 3 Afghans were sentenced:
- Zubaidullah R. life imprisonment;
- Ali H. 19 years in prison;
- Ibraulhaq A. 20 years in prison.
During the closing arguments, the Public Prosecutor told the court she was “stunned” by what the defendants said throughout the proceedings, stating that “there is not a trace of remorse”.
Fun fact: Here is the £100 million London mansion of the new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Billionaires' Row.
@Keir_Starmer, why aren't you seizing it, just as you did to Russian properties?
See, one China trawler can strip more fish in weeks than local fleets catch in months
Now picture 10,000 of them, nonstop, year-round, ignoring recovery cycles and crowding waters near places like the Galápagos Islands
This is eco-terrorism. And we’re still too quiet about it
Three years ago, the Islamic Republic executed Majidreza Rahnavard for participating in protests. The interrogator who had read his will beforehand, hoping to discredit him in the eyes of religious Iranians, asked him in front of the camera what he had written in his will.
Majidreza replied: I don’t want people to cry at my funeral. I don’t want Qur’an recitations or prayers. I want happy music to be played and people to celebrate.
Today, three years later, the families of those killed by the Islamic Republic no longer recite the Qur’an or prayers at their children’s funeral. Instead, they play happy music and celebrate. They say their children were killed in the cause of freedom—something to be honored and celebrated.
We are witnessing a renaissance in Iran; one that Majidreza Rahnavard ignited.
Fatemeh Soltani, 32, a mother of two (6-year-old daughter & 11-month-old son) from North Khorasan, was murdered by the Islamic Republic regime. She joined nationwide protests for basic rights; both she and her husband were shot with live ammo. He survived, she didn’t.
This is the same regime the UN appointed to a human rights committee! The little girl crying in the video is her daughter, as people honor her heroic mother. #فاطمه_سلطانی #Fatemeh_Soltani #IranMassacre
The Cappella Sansevero in the historic center of Naples houses almost 30 marble statues emblematic of the love of decoration in the Rococo period.
This is the Cristo Velato, marble artwork sculpted in 1753 by Giuseppe Sanmartino.
Update: Hanieh Shariati’s forced video says she’s “okay” and her page was shut for “improper posts.”
Only a barbaric Islamic regime considers women’s hair and taekwondo a national threat and somehow that same regime holds a seat at the UN to monitor human and women’s rights. 😡
🚨Christians in Nigeria refuse to renounce the Faith after Islamist’s burned their Church Down 🙏🏽
Let’s continue to pray and intercede for our brothers and sisters all around the world 🙏🏽
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This is Deborah Samuel
Hundreds of Muslim men in Nigeria dragged her from her room,stoned her and set her on fire because she identified as a Christian in a college WhatsApp group
They recorded the murder and laughed as they killed her
Western journalists mostly ignored the story because she was a Christian
Before regime’s bullets killed her, she recorded a video in the street: ‘If change is coming, I want to be part of it.’ She was only 20 and walked into the protest for freedom. They shot Hadis Najafi’s body full of bullets But her courage lives on. Say her name:
#HadisNajafi
🚨Taliban banned books written by women, as well as textbooks covering human rights, women's rights, and Western philosophy.
But still world watching 💔😡
Be grateful and happy, women of the world that you were not born in Afghanistan.
@DalgetySusan@jk_rowling
The Taliban have now banned books by women writers—a direct attack on women’s voices and thought. This is a crime against humanity. Where are the UN, Amnesty, ICC? How long will the world stay silent? #FreeAfghanWomen
Islamists are using starvation as a weapon of war against Christians in Sudan.
Convert to Islam or starve.
Nobody is talking about this. Instead they lie and point the finger elsewhere so that you don’t see the real genocide in Africa.
I’ll never stop talking about the Christian genocide across Africa. Never.
Via @IAMALITABRIZI