Men ride scooters past a billboard displaying portraits of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (left), the slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (center), and his son and successor, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, on a street in Tehran on July 3, 2026. (Credit: Atta Kenare/AFP)
"I am a political prisoner. I was arrested and tortured by the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Revolutionary Guards. It was God's will that I survived. I want to be the voice of all political prisoners in Iran who are arrested, tortured, sometimes raped and, in any case, humiliated." Those were the words of Tifour Salimi Baba Miri, a Kurdish Iranian sentenced to death, as he described the Iranian regime's repression of its opponents during the closing session of the ninth International Congress Against the Death Penalty on Thursday. On the flip-side 'I’m bidding farewell to the man who said no to US and Israel': Lebanese head to Khamenei's funeral The event, organized by the French association Ensemble contre la peine de mort, was held at the Hôtel de Lassay in Paris, the residence of the president of the French...
"I am a political prisoner. I was arrested and tortured by the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Revolutionary Guards. It was God's will that I survived. I want to be the voice of all political prisoners in Iran who are arrested, tortured, sometimes raped and, in any case, humiliated." Those were the words of Tifour Salimi Baba Miri, a Kurdish Iranian sentenced to death, as he described the Iranian regime's repression of its opponents during the closing session of the ninth International Congress Against the Death Penalty on Thursday. On the flip-side 'I’m bidding farewell to the man who said no to US and Israel': Lebanese head to Khamenei's funeral The event, organized by the French association Ensemble contre la peine de mort, was held at the Hôtel de Lassay in Paris, the residence of the president of the...
