Mohammad Ghobadlou

Mohammad Ghobadlou lives in Parand city in Tehran province. He was arrested during the national uprising triggered by Mahsa Amini's murder. He was denied a fair trial and Judge Slalavati at the 15th branch of the revolutionary court of Tehran sentenced him to death on the charge of Moharebeh. He was executed while his death sentence was reversed.

The national uprising of 2022 centered around the “woman, life, freedom” slogan was triggered in response to the murder of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini. The protests began sporadically in several cities and online space but in just a few days it spread to dozens of cities across Iran and the goal of the protesters changed to overthrowing the regime. <symbol-timeline></symbol-timeline>

• <coverage-outsourcing id='47280'> <reference source='https://www.mizan.news/4542550/%d8%b4%d9%87%d8%af%d8%a7%db%8c-%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%86%db%8c%d8%aa/'> Mohammad Ghobadlou was arrested by security forces in Rabat Karim. Sometime later, Mizan, the Judiciary News Agency, published this news in a report about the proceedings of Mr. Ghobadlou's case. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='43564'> <reference source='https://www.mizan.news/4492959/%d8%a8%d8%b1%da%af%d8%b2%d8%a7%d8%b1%db%8c-%d8%ac%d9%84%d8%b3%d9%87-%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%af%da%af%d8%a7%d9%87-%d8%b1%d8%b3%db%8c%d8%af%da%af%db%8c-%d8%a8%d9%87-%d8%a7%d8%aa%d9%87%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%aa/'> The trial session of several arrested protesters was held at the 15th branch of the revolutionary court of Tehran presided by Judge Salavati. According to the judiciary's Mizan website, in this session, Mohammad Ghobadlou was charged with spreading corruption on earth, Saman Saidy (Yasin) with two counts of Moharebeh and assembly and collusion with intent to commit crimes against national security, Mohammad Broughani with Moharebeh, Abolfazl Mehri and Hossein Hajilou with fighting the state through disrupting public order, Mohsen Rezazadeh Gharagholou with two counts of Moharebeh and assembly and collusion against national security, and Saeed Shirazi with spreading corruption on earth. Although the state media claimed the trials were public, only some selected scenes from the trial were released by state media. Saman Yasin, a rapper, at the beginning of the video in response to Judge Salavati's question about his criminal background said "I have none." But later Judge Salavati claimed that he does have a criminal background and mentioned assault and battery and possession of a weapon as his previous charges. Mock trials with the aim of intimidating the public have a long history in the Islamic Republic, and it seems like the judge intends to present the defendants as thugs with criminal backgrounds in order to discredit them to a portion of the population that is susceptible to propaganda. Another defendant Mohammad Boroughani who was charged with assault and battery of the police forces stated that the assault was not intentional. The video is clearly edited and has raised many questions. Another defendant, Mohammad Ghobadlou was accused of the murder of a security agent. However, right before the trial, Mr. Ghobadlou's attorney Amir Raisian was removed by the order of Judge Slaavati, based on article 48 of the CCP. On Twitter Amir Raisian said this decision was illegal and presented evidence on his Twitter account. He also pointed out that the video of the "murdered" special force member's funeral and wrote that the narrative of the officials, does not match the narrative of the court which states that he was killed in an accident. Mr. Raisian explained that the medical examiner's report shows that the cause of death was a blunt object and there are no other signs of bruises and wounds on his body, which is strange in a car accident. Nobel Prize winner and legal expert Shirin Ebadi discussed the concept of illegitimate self-defense. According to some of her recent interviews, in face of uncontrolled and d violent suppression. She used the example of security forces shooting at the people saying a prayer in Zahedan, where the Islamic Republic claimed some security forces were also killed by the people. Ms. Ebadi emphasized that there is no evidence of security forces getting killed by the people; however, in a situation where the state forces violate the law and threaten the lives of people, people's reaction to them, even with a weapon, is a legitimate defense. Whether the charges against the defendants are true or not, many legal experts have argued that the protesters have not committed any crimes even according to the Islamic Republic's laws. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='47191'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/amirreiis/status/1586778532813881349?s=20'> Amir Raisian, the lawyer of Mohammad Ghobadlou, published a document on Twitter that shows the order of the authorities of the Prosecutor General's Office to speed up the processing of the case of the killing of Farid Karampour. Mr. Raisian raised the question why, when the limitation of Article 48 only applies to the prosecutor's office, the defendant's lawyers are not allowed to defend him at the court stage, and wrote: "Perhaps the answer lies in this correspondence, which has defined the task from the beginning to the end of the case, and in other words, it means that the result of the preliminary investigation of the prosecutor's office is decided in advance. The published document shows that AbdolSamad Khorramabadi, the deputy supervisor of prosecutors of the country, in a letter addressed to Rahim Alishpour, the prosecutor of Rabat Karim city, issued an order to speed up the investigation of the case of the killing of Farid Karampour and wrote: > While providing the necessary information to the investigator of the case, it should be observed that the case is investigated urgently in the court and leads to the issuance of a final decree and sentencing, and after the court stage, the necessary follow-ups to speed up the issuance of the verdict in the preliminary and appeal stages are carried out and announce the result. He has also attached to this letter the picture of the letter of Mohammad Jaafar Montazeri, the Attorney General of the country, who issued the order to speed up the handling of this case. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='43567'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/MaryamMoqaddam/status/1586994530594734080?s=20&t=LaJwEsUSS_7UNETAjphVyg'> Masoumeh Ahmadi, the mother of Mohammad Ghobadlou, released a video asking people for help. In the video, she says the court has dismissed their hired attorneys and didn't allow them in the courtroom. She says "they issued the sentence in the first trial session." Sources told IPA that the possibility of a death sentence is very high but no sentence has been communicated to him yet. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='43569'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/MaryamMoqaddam/status/1587397005386682368?s=20&t=LaJwEsUSS_7UNETAjphVyg'> Masoumeh Ahmadi, the mother of Mohammad Ghobadlou, released a video announcing that she doesn't have any information on her son. She went to prison to see her son and sat there waiting for a while, but his son did not show up for visit and that worried her. Prison authorities would say "his information is not in the system" or "he's been transferred" to hide the truth from his mother, but after a few hours, one prison staffer told her that "Judge Salavaty is denying him visitation and threw him in solitary." Ms. Ahmadi goes on to say: > What risk my ill son can have for them that they had to take him to solitary? They're not giving him his medication and his health is gonna get worse. She had previously mentioned that her son is suffering from a nerve issue. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='47284'> <reference source='https://www.mizan.news/4499607/%d8%b4%d8%b1%d8%ad-%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%86%d8%af-%d8%b1%d8%b3%db%8c%d8%af%da%af%db%8c-%d8%a8%d9%87-%d8%a7%d8%aa%d9%87%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d9%85%d8%ad%d9%85%d8%af-%d9%82%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%af%d9%84%d9%88/'> "The defendant's lawyers are not qualified to appear in the Revolutionary Court." Mizan, the Judiciary News Agency, wrote this in a report about the process of dealing with the case of Mohammad Ghobadlou and stated: > In view of the security aspects of this case and the implementation of the amendment of Article 48 (selection of lawyers approved by the head of the judiciary), lawyers introduced by the Ghobadlou family do not have the authority to defend him in the case of corruption on earth, which is heard in the Revolutionary Court, but their presence in the criminal case of Mohammad Ghobadlou is not an obstacle, and his lawyers can defend his charges in the Criminal Court 1. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='43565'> <reference source='https://www.mizan.news/4517217'> Judiciary's Mizan website, without mentioning any names, reported that three prisoners have received death sentences. Hours after the report, it became clear that Mohammad Ghobadlou, Mohammad Boroughani, and Sahand Nour Mohammadzadeh are the three defendants who received the death sentence. According to the report, Mohammad Ghobadlou has been sentenced to death on the charge of corruption on earth. State and judiciary media claim that Mr. Ghobadlou was accused of "intentionally" driving his car into police motorcycles which killed one and wounded several agents; therefore he was sentenced to death on the charge of " corruption on earth through a physical crime against others, act against national security leading to disrupting public order and creating unsafety and destruction and damaging private and public property." Mohammad Boroughani was also sentenced to death on the charge of Moharebeh. In a part of the report, he was accused of intentionally harming a state agent, causing fear and panic, and setting fire to the governor's building in Pakdasht. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='44249'> <reference source='https://www.iranintl.com/202211173394'> Amnesty International announced that the Islamic Republic intends to execute at least 21 arrested protesters after mock trials in order to intimidate the protesters. The organization pointed out the claims of Islamic Republic officials about the trials being public and asked foreign embassies to send monitors to these trials. Diana Eltahawi, deputy regional director of the Middle East and North Africa division of Amnesty emphasized that the Islamic Republic officials must cease all executions immediately. According to Amnesty International's report, 11 individuals are being tried by the revolutionary court of Karaj including Farzaneh Ghare Hassanlou and Hamid Ghareh Hassanlou are being charged with spreading corruption on earth. Amnesty's report also mentions the names of some of the protesters at risk of execution. Parham Parvari, Sahand Nourmohammadzadeh, Abolfazl Mehri, Hossein Hajilou, Manouchehr Mehmannavaz, Saeed Shirazi, Mohammad Ghobadlou, Mahan Sedarat Madani, Saman Yassin, Mohammad Boroughani, and Mohsen Rezazadeh Gharagholou are among the names in the Amnesty report. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='44390'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3PlqBFW'> The trial session of Mohammad Ghobadlou was held at the first branch of the criminal court of Tehran. State affiliate ISNA reported that Mr. Ghobadlou was first sentenced to death by the revolutionary court on the charge of corruption on earth. Besides that, the rest of his charges are under the jurisdiction of the criminal court. IPA finds the charges against Mr. Ghobadlou in the criminal court vague. During the trial session, Mr. Ghobadlou described his mental health and explained that two months ago, on the night of the incident, he had not been taking his medication for two months and had not slept for three nights. BBC Persian released medical documents that show Mr. Ghobadlou was treated at a mental hospital for bipolar. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='45403'> <reference source='https://divanealee.eadl.ir/news/ID/203261/categoryId/1/203261'> The supreme court confirmed the death sentence of Mohammad Ghobadlou and accepted the final appeal of Saman Yasin. The revised report was published by the supreme court when only a few hours earlier it had reported that Mr. Ghobadlou's sentence had also been overturned. The supreme court announced that Saman Saidy's (Yasin's) case was returned to the same branch due to "investigation flaws". </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='45410'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/amirreiis/status/1606978141716680705?s=20'> After evading the questions from the hired attorney, the supreme court authorities said the case is in secret archives and he cannot access it. Mr. Raisian reported the news on Twitter and added that he was blocked from talking to supreme court officials. He also reported that he succeeded in delivering the retrial request. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='45470'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2023/hranews/a-38848/'> HARANA reported that Mahan Sadrat, Manouchehr Mehman Navaz, Mohammad Ghobadlou, and Mohammad Boroughani are housed with violent crime prisoners. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='52128'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/amirreiis/status/1612211833791971330?s=20'> Amir Raisian, the lawyer of Mohammad Ghobadlou, published the picture of the request for retrial and wrote on his Twitter that according to the law, as soon as this request is received, the Superior Court must issue an order to stop the execution of the death sentence. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='52129'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/amirreiis/status/1611511083822448646?s=20'> Amir Raisian, the lawyer of Mohammad Ghobadlou, published a letter of collective request from psychiatrists to the head of the judiciary regarding the case of Mohammad Ghobadlou, and wrote that in the hearing of the Criminal Court 1 to resolve the ambiguity regarding the mental health of Mr. Ghobadlou, the representative of the forensic medicine said that Mohammad's condition was not such that the discussion of his mental illness is relevant to the case, but now this doctor along with 49 doctors and professors of psychology are demanding further investigation. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='47302'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3IkCXwk'> Amnesty International issued a warning against the sudden execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou. According to IranWire, Amnesty International's statement reads: > Mohammed Ghobadlou, a 22-year-old man with a long history of mental disorders, is at risk of execution. He has received two death sentences following grossly unfair show trials. Amnesty International emphasized in its statement that his forced confessions during the interrogation period were due to the pressure and false promises of the interrogators. Amnesty International also said that it has gained access to information according to which Mohammad Ghobadlou was repeatedly assaulted during his detention and the authorities denied him access to drugs related to bipolar disorder and kept him in solitary confinement in order to force him to confess. In another part of Amnesty International's report, it is pointed out that Mohammad Ghobadlou was deprived of the right to access to a chosen lawyer and the judicial system of the Islamic Republic held only two short hearings for him, in both of which the accused's chosen lawyer was not present. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='47289'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/Amir_hashemii/status/1617515591325356035?s=20'> Amir Hashemi, Director of Public Relations of the Superior Court of Iran, announced in a tweet that Mohammad Ghobadlou was sentenced to murder retribution (death) in a criminal court of a Tehran province and wrote that his lawyer's appeal was filed in the Supreme Court and the case was referred to one of the branches for consideration. . </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='47293'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/Amir_hashemii/status/1620706933555761154?s=20'> The Supreme Court of the country issued an order to suspend the execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou on the charge of Moharebeh (waging war against Islam). Amir Hashemi, the public relations officer of the Supreme Court, wrote this news in a tweet and emphasized that the reason for the suspension of the death sentence issued by the Revolutionary Court is the request of his lawyer for retrial and the precedence of the rights of people over the rights of Allah. While Mr. Hashemi announced the issuance of a retribution sentence by a criminal court of a Tehran province, Mizan, the Judiciary News Agency, in a news published on the same day, said the retribution sentence in the criminal court has not been issued yet and wrote: > After the trial of Mohammad Ghobadlou on the charge of corruption in the land in the Tehran Revolutionary Court, the investigation of other charges against the accused Ghobadlou in the criminal court of a province of Tehran has started. Based on this, on December 9, the criminal court session of the defendant Mohammad Ghobadlou, son of Mohammad Ali, was held in the criminal court of a Tehran province on the charge of intentional homicide and in the presence of the accused, plaintiffs, a number of eyewitnesses to the incident, forensic experts and Ghobadlou's hired lawyer, and the verdict of this court is still pending. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='47260'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/borhanimohsen1/status/1621040777622343685?s=20'> Law professor and legal expert Mohsen Borhani at Tehran University stated that the supreme court's ruling in the case of Ghobadlou proved that the death sentence of Majid Reza Rahnavard was not legally correct and his alleged crime, if proven, would not have fit the charge of Moharebeh. Borhani's comments in this case and a few others led to his removal from the faculty of Tehran University. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='47097'> <reference source='https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/'> In a call for immediate action, Amnesty International announced that at least 14 of the people arrested during the 2022 uprising in Iran have been sentenced to death and are in danger of execution. Amnesty International stated that the Islamic Republic has violated fair trial principles and has tortured most of these individuals, namely Hamid Ghareh Hassanlou, Mohammad Ghobadlou, Sahand Nour Mohammadzadeh, Shoeyb Mirbalouch Zehi, Ebrahim Narouei, Mansour Dehmordeh, Kambiz Khorute, Javad Rouhi, Mehdi Mohammadifard, and Arshia Takdastan. by cable, whip, electric shock, mock execution, rape, and other types of sexual violence. The report goes on to say that Mehdi Mohammadifard was raped during his interrogation and had to be hospitalized. Based on the reports, Mr. Mohammadifard also experienced beatings, being hung by a foot, threats with a gun, and putting ice on his testicles during interrogation. The report also mentions the repeated torture of Hamid Ghareh Hassanlou which led to his broken ribs and interior bleeding and lung issues. Mohammad Ghobadlou has also experienced several violations and according to the medical examiner his body was wounded and bruised after the arrest. At least 14 out of dozens of prisoners named in the report have been sentenced to death and the rest face heavy charges. Toumaj Salehi, Farzaneh Tahazadeh, Farhad Tahazadeh, Karevan Shahiparvaneh, Reza Eslamdoust, Taher Hamidi, Shahram Marouf Mola, Pouria Javaheri, Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, Hamid Ghareh Hassanlou, Mohammad Ghobadlou, Sahand Nour Mohammadzadeh, Shoeyb Mirbalouch Zehi, Ebrahim Narouei, Mansour Dehmordeh, Kambiz Kharout, Javad Rouhi, Mehdi Mohammadifard, Arshia Takdastan, Mohammad Boroughani, Mehdi Bahman, Majid Kazemi, Manouchehr Mehmannavaz, Saleh Mirhashemi, Saeed Yaghoubi, Sahand Nour Mohammadzadeh, Hossein Mohammadi, Reza Ariya, Mahan Sedarat, Saeed Shirazi, Abolfazl Mehri Hossein Hajilou. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='52127'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/28zt9mar'> The first branch of the Superior Court rejected the request to resume the trial of Mohammad Ghobadlou for the criminal court case. Amir Raisian, the lawyer of Mohammad Ghobadlou, told Shargh Network: "The retrial request regarding the death sentenced case of Mr. Ghobadlou, which was issued in the Revolutionary Court, is still open and the first branch of the superior court has not yet made a decision on it, but the retrial request for the retribution execution case (Qisas) which was given a preliminary verdict in the criminal court of a Tehran province, has been rejected. While announcing that the ruling issued by the first branch of the Superior Court was signed by two deputy members and that the chief justice of the branch did not announce his judicial opinion, Mr. Raisian said: > The second issue regarding this ruling is that, unfortunately, in the document issued by the court, it says that the objections that we made in the case, including the topics related to forensic medicine and mental health, as well as research topics such as CCTV images, are related to the preliminary and appellate proceedings. They have not addressed these objections because they are not considered reasons for retrial; That is to say, because these issues were substantive issues, they were not taken into consideration. This is very sad because on the other hand, the same issues were raised in the preliminary and appellate proceedings, but they were not taken into consideration, and now it is said that these should have been raised earlier and taken into consideration for another reason. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='52288'> <reference source='https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/6889/2023/en/'> Amnesty International warned about the "serious" danger of the imminent execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou in an open letter to the chief of the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic, requesting the immediate reversal of the sentence issued in his case. In this letter addressed to Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, this organization reminded that Mohammad Ghobadlou's right to a fair trial was denied, he was deprived of access to a lawyer during the initial interrogations, was subjected to physical harassment and was "repeatedly beaten". In the continuation of this letter, it is stated that the death sentence was issued twice for Mohammad Qabadlo while he suffers from bipolar disease and was denied access to his medicines during detention and interrogation in order to "force him to confess". Amnesty International also added that Mr. Qabadlo's death sentence was issued against him as a result of two short trials and without the right of access to a hired lawyer. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='54812'> <reference source='https://x.com/amirreiis/status/1749474992679498021?s=20'> Amir Raisian, one of the lawyers of Mohammad Ghobadlou, announced that he had received the notice of execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou's death sentence. In this announcement, which was issued by the second branch of the criminal sentence enforcement unit of Robat Karim and signed by Assistant Prosecutor Majid Fard, the date of tomorrow was announced as the day of the "execution of the retribution (Qisas) sentence" of Mohammad Ghobadlou. This lawyer published the pictures of the notification and the related documents which are available in the evidence section of the profile, and wrote that the retribution sentence of Mr. Ghobadlou had been reversed in the first branch of the Supreme Court and the case had been referred to a branch of equal rank (5th criminal-1 branch of Tehran) to deal with Forensic re-examinations and issue a new verdict. He added that after this verdict, the case did not reach the Fifth Criminal-1 Branch for months and this branch requested guidance from the Supreme Court. He wrote: > The first branch of the court said in the last notification we received that the proceedings have been canceled for the time being and it depends on the outcome of the proceedings in the 39th branch of the court." In the end, he wrote that whatever decision was made in the process of Article 477, it does not deny Mohammad Ghobadlou's right to a retrial, and as a result, the execution of the sentence has no legal authorization and is undoubtedly considered "murder . An hour after the announcement of the imminent execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou, his parents requested the Karampour family in a video to prevent the execution of the sentence. Amnesty International also issued a statement calling on the head of the judiciary to stop the arbitrary and illegal execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou, which was suddenly scheduled for tomorrow. This statement states: > The case of this young man with a mental disorder who was arrested in the context of the Women, Life, Freedom uprising is based on confessions obtained under torture and was carried forward secretly." Klara Bonger, a member of the German parliament and political sponsor of Mohammad Ghobadlou, also published a video on social networks and asked the international community to prevent his execution. A group of political prisoners in Ghezel Hesar prison also sent a letter, warning about the imminent execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou and Farhad Salimi. In this letter, which was published by Radio Farda, the political prisoners say that they witnessed the "unexpected presence of some judicial officials" in Ghezel Hesar prison at noon. This letter goes on to say that due to the transfer of Farhad Salimi to solitary confinement and the news of the impending execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou's death sentence by his lawyer, the "risk of executing the death sentence and the government murder" of these two is "very serious . </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='54811'> <reference source='https://x.com/amirreiis/status/1749776568136741064?s=20'> Mohammad Ghobadlou was executed in Ghezel Hesar prison. Mizan, the news agency of the Judiciary, claimed that the sentence of the Criminal Court-I of Tehran province regarding Mohammad Ghobadlou's "retribution for murder" has been executed after being approved by the Supreme Court. This news agency published the ruling rejecting the request for a retrial issued by the 39th branch of the Supreme Court headed by Ali Razini and advisor Gholamreza Mazarei on January 1st, 2024. In response to this ruling, the lawyer of Mohammad Ghobadlou stated that this sentence was never communicated to them. He said that the 39th branch of the Supreme Court issued the appeal decision in this case, and based on Article 421 of the Criminal Procedure Code, this branch cannot make another substantive comment in this case. Regarding the application of Article 477 of the Criminal Procedure Code by Ali Al-Ghasimehr, the Chief Justice of Tehran in this case, he stated: > The case is being processed for retrial! One cannot say that ordering a retrial of a murder case is illegal and will be invalidated by the application of Article 477! Reconsideration adds to the credibility and validity of the vote. What is illegitimate is the haste in handling and ignoring the flaws of the case. He further stated that the "intent to attack people" written in the ruling was not mentioned before and the phrase "after killing a person is a new phrase in this document. He added that the psychiatrist who had certified the health of Mohammad Ghobadlou in this case, after the verdict, together with 49 other psychiatrists, found the medical examinations incomplete, and for this reason, the first branch of the court voted to order a retrial, and it is not clear why has the 39th branch of the Supreme Court not paid attention to this issue. In the end, he again pointed out that this document was not delivered to the lawyers and the family of Mohammad Ghobadlou and wrote: > How can the retribution sentence be executed before it is delivered?! </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='55069'> <reference source='https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/01/iran-executions-of-protester-with-mental-disability-and-kurdish-man-mark-plunge-into-new-realms-of-cruelty/'> In a statement, Amnesty International described the execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou and Farhad Salimi by the authorities of the Islamic Republic as their "terrible descent" into "a new realm of oppression". Diana Al Tahawi, Deputy Director of Amnesty International for the Middle East and North Africa Affairs, while pointing out that the arbitrary execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou shocked his family and his lawyer who were waiting for his retrial, said that the Islamic Republic's judicial authorities at the highest levels are secretly going around the legal proceedings and violated basic principles of human rights and rule of law. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='54861'> <reference source='https://x.com/amirreiis/status/1750176013156262131?s=20'> Mizan News Agency has published the letter of the judiciary of Tehran Province, which states the reasons why the recommendation of retrial by the first branch of the Supreme Court was wrong. In response to this letter, Amir Raisian wrote that not a single word was argued about the wrongness of the "order of retrial" and all the arguments are about the issue of insanity and the nature of the case. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='54857'> <reference source='https://x.com/amirreiis/status/1750043413846675937?s=20'> Lawyer Mohammad Ghobadlou wrote that hours after the execution of his client's death sentence, the judicial system of the Islamic Republic communicated the rejection of the request for retrial to him. According to Amir Raisian's post on his X user account, the second branch of the Robat Karim Prosecutor's Office has sent a notification to him as the lawyer of the case on January 24 at 21:23, that is, 15-16 hours after the execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou's death sentence. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='54980'> <reference source='https://x.com/dadban4/status/1750153238362382589?s=20'> Daadban published a part of a journalist's interview with Masoumeh Ahmadi, the mother of Mohammad Ghobadlou, two hours before the execution on its X account. In a part of this interview, it is mentioned that one of the prison officers opened the door and said to Mohammad Ghobadlou's mother: > Why did you come now? It's early. He will be executed at four o'clock. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='54902'> <reference source='https://www.radiofarda.com/a/32789413.html'> In a statement, the European Union emphasized that it strongly condemns the execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou and once again calls on the Iranian authorities to immediately end the issuing and execution of death sentences against protesters. Emphasizing that "the use of the death penalty as a response to domestic opposition is unacceptable", the European Union's statement called the number of executions in Iran last year and the current pace of executions "horrific". </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='55326'> <reference source='http://tinyurl.com/scz7xskr'> Mahdokht Damghanpour, one of Mohammad Ghobadlou's lawyers, said in an interview with the Iran Watch website that his client had confessed to the charges while his medication had been cut off. According to him, the execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou was carried out "in the most secret way possible" without the family being informed and having a last visit. Ms. Damghanpour, in response to the question of whether stopping and re-taking the drug affected Mohammad Ghobadlou's confessions, stated: > Yes, it was very effective; "When Muhammad was arrested, he was so depressed that he did not even want a lawyer appointed for him and wanted to end his life. He did not even defend himself or explain his condition." This attorney described the execution of the retribution (Qisas) sentence for Mohammad Ghobadlou as "slaughtering the law and Sharia and discrediting the judicial system and said: > The sentence was executed even though we had submitted the case documents to stop the execution of the sentence. Mahdokht Damghanpour also explained the appeal process: > We were able to get the case number from the court-appointed lawyer and request an appeal. The appeal process was long and painful. This is because the case number issued by Branch 15 for its cases is completely different from other court cases and was not identified in the automatic system, so it was returned in the special judicial services office. Finally, with the detailed explanation we gave to the special judicial services office, Mohammad's appeal was registered and approved. "Even though we had approval in the system, we hand delivered the supplementary bill and the appeal to the Supreme Court." > Mr. Ghobadlou's lawyer states in this conversation that "the relevant officials lied to us every time and said that the application of Article 477 was in our favor, and we thought that the head of the judiciary designated the verdict of retribution (Qisas) to be against Sharia and requested a retrial in favor of Mohammad. Ms. Damghanpour said in another part of this interview: > We asked them to give the video of the CCTV cameras of the boulevard where the incident happened, but they said that there is no camera in that area. We did not see a report of people's testimony in the case. The witnesses of the case were police officers, who themselves were among the victims of the case. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>