Iran hangs pair in rare blasphemy case as executions surge

PabloDiscobar, 10 months ago

The two men executed, Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare, died at Arak Prison in central Iran on Monday. They had been arrested in May 2020, accused of being involved in a channel on the Telegram message app called “Critique of Superstition and Religion,” according to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. Both men faced months of solitary confinement and could not contact their families, the commission said.

"Critique of superstition and Religion"

In my dictionary, when you cannot leave a religion then it is called a cult.

And this is why this subject matters. People keep getting killed for promoting atheism. I've worked with iranians in the past and some among them told me how happy they were to work remote from Iran, in a country where they can stop faking being a muslim. It was a relief for them for the duration of their stay.

Xeelee, 10 months ago

How utterly disgusting. What is even more disturbing is that a lot of people in the US are trying to turn their country into something like this.

DarkGamer, 10 months ago

Poor bastards, killed for being rational while born in an irrational place. RIP.