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guards were acting on orders from the
Iranian Ministry of Intelligence to single out and assault Ward 350's political prisoners. Subsequent to the assault, Khosravi was transferred to a solitary confinement cell for nearly two weeks. He was refused any medical treatment despite the severity of his wounds. Even in that condition, Khosravi staged a hunger strike with other prisoners who had also been forced into solitary confinement, protesting to be moved out of solitary confinement and back to Ward 350. After 23 days and a worldwide campaign, guards obliged, and the hunger strike ended. However, one informed Khosravi that he was to be executed imminently. Iran Human Rights posited that Khosravi's execution, which was indeed scheduled soon after the hunger strike, may have been in retaliation against the political prisoners' resistance and protest of the 17 April assault.
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Khosravi's family nor his lawyers had been formally notified of authorities' plans to execute Khosravi on 10 September; discussions of the imminent execution date arose from the fact that Khosravi was transferred to Ward 350 of Evin Prison, suggesting that authorities planned to execute him there imminently. Iranian law requires the family and lawyers of a condemned person to be informed of an execution date. Shortly before 10 September 2012, the execution was postponed indefinitely.
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of international and national laws." They demanded that the
Iranian regime halt his execution immediately while the Deputy of Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa sector, Hasibeh Haj-Saraei, released a separate statement announcing that "the Iranian authorities are about to execute a man who has been denied a fair trial."
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The unusual and sudden timing for the family visit, combined with
Khosravi's transfer to Raja'i Shahr Prison, alerted human rights organizations to the impending execution. On 31 May, Amnesty International released a statement and a last-minute plea calling Khosravi's impending execution "a violation
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Approximately two months prior to
Khosravi's execution, on 17 April 2014, Evin Prison guards raided Ward 350 and beat many of the inmates imprisoned there. Khosravi suffered severe head and face wounds, including having his right ear torn. According to the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the
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may be brought against people who take up arms against the state or belong to organizations that are perceived as taking up arms against the government – thereby, people who participate in treason – as those people are seen as acting against God in doing so. Because
Iranian authorities branded MEK a
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on 28 May 2014. Three days later on 31 May, the day before his execution, he was placed in solitary confinement for one last time as preparations for his execution were underway. Soon after his move to the prison, his family members were notified that they could visit him. Only after the visit were
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could only be brought against people who had literally, not figuratively, taken up arms. In spite of the fact that this change to the penal code excluded
Khosravi from the death penalty, Iranian officials did not act to change Khosravi's sentence. As a result of the Iranian government's failure to
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Khosravi's death sentence on 21 April 2012. Following the affirmation of the sentence, it became clear that there were no longer any legal hurdles to executing Khosravi. The Human Rights Watch declared in a release demanding a stop to the execution that Iranian officials could schedule a
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which declared in Article 14, section 7, that "no one shall be liable to be tried or punished again for an offence for which he has already been finally convicted." Section 6 of the same covenant states that the death penalty "may be imposed only for the most serious of crimes," and Human Rights
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Khosravi was targeted repeatedly for his involvement with the organization, with his legal troubles beginning with the start of his involvement with the group in the 1980s. At one point in 1981, when he was 16 years old, he was arrested for his involvement with MEK and sentenced to ten years in
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Following the extension of Khosravi's sentence, the Ministry of Intelligence appealed the sentence again, which led to two retrials being ordered for Khosravi. During the second retrial, authorities used the proof of Khosravi's monetary support to Simaye Azadi to enable charging him with
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Watch accused Iran of violating the covenant by executing Khosravi for the mere offense of "providing information and money to a Mojahedin-e Khalq-affiliated television station," which would not meet the threshold specified in Section 6. Lastly, Human Rights Watch pointed out that the
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organization focused on interpreting Islam in a way that politically promotes tolerance, democracy, and social and gendered equality, countering the more conservative government in power in Iran. According to the
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in Iran who was executed on 1 June 2014. His execution was highly controversial due to accusations that Khosravi did not receive due process or fair treatment during his trial or leading up to his death.
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appealed the sentence in hopes of increasing its severity. The appeal led to the three suspended years being implemented, bringing the total time that Khosravi would spend in prison to six years.
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