The men were sentenced to death in October 2024 following a grossly unfair trial marred by torture allegations and denial of access to a lawyer in pre-trial detention. Global action is needed NOW urging Iranian authorities to halt any plans to execute them! 3/3.

Officials told other prisoners they were taking the men to Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj. Fears that authorities are planning to execute the five men imminently emerge amid an execution crisis in Iran which has involved dozens of executions in this prison. 2/3.

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🧵URGENT: Iranian authorities must immediately halt any plans to execute Akbar (Shahrokh) Daneshvarkar, Babak Alipour, Mohammad Taghavi Sangdehi, Pouya Ghobadi & Vahid Bani Amerian. On 7 August, authorities violently transferred them out of the Greater Tehran Penitentiary. 1/3.

Babak Shahbazi’s lawyer submitted a request for a judicial review of his case several days ago, but the Supreme Court immediately rejected it. Global action is needed NOW urging Iranian authorities to halt any plans to execute him! 3/3.

Babak Shahbazi was sentenced to death in May 2025 for alleged espionage for Israel. Authorities denied him access to a lawyer for months after arrest & subjected him to torture, including prolonged solitary confinement & threats to harm his family, to extract “confessions”. 2/3.

🧵Iran's authorities must immediately halt plans to execute Babak Shahbazi, who was sentenced to death after an unfair trial marred by torture allegations. This week, authorities rejected his request for judicial review & moved him to a prison where executions are carried out 1/3

Iranian authorities must immediately stop the mass expulsion of Afghans and provide all Afghans in Iran with protection, including a regular migration status that protects them from refoulement. 12/12.

. to a country where they would be at real risk of violations. All states, including Iran, must recognize Afghan women and girls as refugees and not return them to Afghanistan where the Taliban commit the crime against humanity of gender persecution against them. 11/12.

Those forcibly returned to Afghanistan, including women & girls, artists, dissidents, former officials, journalists & HRDs, face a real risk of human rights violations by the Taliban. Under the non-refoulement principle, states are prohibited from returning anyone. 10/12.

The unlawful expulsion campaign has involved home raids, stop-and-searches, arbitrary arrests & forcible returns of people. Iranian officials have intensified their use of dehumanizing rhetoric against Afghans, fuelling hate speech and hate crimes. 9/12.

Between 1 June and 10 July 2025, Iranian authorities expelled at least 546,000 people, including 5,000 “unaccompanied and separated children” in June 2025. 8/12.

After the escalation of hostilities b/w Israel & Iran on 13 June, the mass expulsions scaled up more. On 22 June, Iranian state media quoted a border force official saying “all unauthorized nationals must leave Iran” – a term often used by the authorities to refer to Afghans 7/12.

In the following months, the Iranian authorities stated their objective to return Afghans whose “headcount” documents had expired to Afghanistan by June 2025. 6/12.

On 12 March 2025, Iran’s Centre for Foreign Nationals and Immigration Affairs, which is under the Ministry of Interior, announced that these “headcount” documents for Afghans would automatically expire the year 1404 on Iran’s calendar (corresponding to 20 March 2025). 5/12.

Until March, millions of Afghans were permitted to temporarily legalize their stay through “headcount” documents & w/this document had limited access to services, including state healthcare, public education, work authorization, banking access & enter into rental agreements. 4/12.

Iranian laws don't offer a reliable pathway to naturalization, except through a few exceptional circumstances. As a result, most Afghans retain a precarious status, even after decades of living in Iran & children are not automatically granted nationality even if born in Iran 3/12.

Iran has hosted one of the largest populations of Afghan refugees & asylum seekers in the world. Per @Refugees, as of 2022, there were more than 4.5 million Afghans in Iran, and 1 million fled to Iran since 2021, when the Taliban returned to power. 2/12 .

🧵on how Iranian authorities have forcefully returned more than one million Afghans, including those born in Iran and those living in Iran for decades, from Iran to Afghanistan in 2025 as authorities wage an unlawful expulsion campaign. 1/12.

On 30 July, Iranian authorities used a guillotine machine to amputate the fingers of prisoners Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Sharafian & Mehdi Shahivand after a grossly unfair trial. All officials responsible for this crime of torture must face accountability.

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