Ahmadreza Djalali was sentenced to death in 2017 after he was found guilty of spying for Israel; Amnesty says Tehran is using him as a 'pawn in a cruel political game'

Ahmadreza Djalali was arrested in April 2016 while attending a conference in Tehran, then put on trial and sentenced to death in 2017

Use of death penalty accelerated after election of hardliner Raisi, say French and Norwegian NGOs, including fivefold rise in drug-related executions over 2020

According to report presented to Human Rights Council, more than 80 death sentences were over drug offenses

Former senior United Nations officials and Nobel prize winners call for investigation into killings of some 30,000 detainees, with Iranian president among alleged perpetrators

Hossein Shahbazi, 20, stabbed a classmate to death during a fight when he was 17; his killing would violate international human rights law, four UN experts say

Heidar Ghorbani's trial deemed unfair due to forced confessions; crowd gathers in his hometown of Kamyaran in western Iran, chanting 'martyrs don't die'

Wife of one of the men presents video evidence to police, but she asks court to spare the capital punishment; judges instead uphold her father's demand

More than 250 people, including at least four children, were put to death in the country in 2020, Javaid Rehman tells the UN General Assembly's human rights committee

Amnesty says Arman Abdolali has been sentenced to death in a 'grossly unfair trial'; international outcry has twice before delayed punishment in the case