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As clock ticks toward another Trump presidency, federal death row prisoners appeal for clemency

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President-elect Donald Trump’s return to office is putting a spotlight on the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute, which houses federal death row. In Bloomington, a small community of death row spiritual advisors is struggling to support the prisoners to whom they minister.  Ross Martinie Eiler is a Mennonite, Episcopal lay minister and member of the Catholic Worker movement, which assists the homeless. And for the past three years, he’s served as a spiritual advisor for a man on federal death row.

Iran | 4 Prisoners Hanged in Urmia Central Prison

On Friday, December 31, 2021, 4 Kurdish prisoners, Hossein Abbaszadeh, Moghadam Alizadeh, Faizollah Ghorbani, and Hamdollah Alemi, were hanged in Urmia Central Prison. 

At least 9 people have been executed in Iranian prisons during the last 10 days.

The mass execution of 4 people in Urmia Prison on the last day of 2021 is another example of the Iranian regime’s disregard of the international community, which in its 68th resolution in the recent UN General Assembly condemned the clerical regime for its horrific human rights violations, especially executions and particularly the highest juvenile executions in the world. 

The number of executions recorded in 2021 is at least 100 more than that of 2020.

Any agreement, indulgent approach, or concession to a regime that operates only through executions, torture, and repression is a grave violation of the principles on which the United Nations and the European Union are founded on, and will only embolden the regime to continue and intensify such crimes. 

This regime must be ostracized from the international community, and its leaders must be brought to justice for four decades of crimes against humanity and genocide.

Source: NCRI, Staff, January 3, 2022


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