Iran’s Judiciary Threatens Executions for Economic ‘Crimes’

Implementing the Death Penalty is Wrong Response to Economic Crisis

• Tara Sepehri Far
• HRW

Iran’s senior officials are attempting to head off a looming economic crisis – triggered by the return of US sanctions – with threats of new rights-abusing policies.

Tehran’s prosecutor, Jafari Dolatabadi, on Wednesday warned that importers who abuse government subsidies could be charged with “corruption on earth,” which carries a possible death sentence.

Several hardliner newspapers and parliamentarians have echoed Dolatabadi’s call to execute people found responsible for…

• Iran’s Judiciary Threatens…