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A person opened fire at the Supreme Court of Iran in Tehran on Saturday. Two judges died in this attack. At the same time, Supreme Court spokesperson Asghar Jahangir has claimed that the judges were killed after entering their rooms.
Both the judges were hearing cases of national security, terrorism and espionage. After shooting at both of them, the attacker committed suicide. Another judge has also been injured in the entire incident. Apart from this, a bodyguard has also been injured.
According to the report, the attack took place at 10:45 am local time. The Supreme Court judges who were targeted have been identified as Ali Rajini and Moghiseh. He was among the senior judges of the Iranian judiciary. According to media reports, both the judges were called hangmen because of giving more death sentences.
The name of the judge injured in the attack is said to be Justice Hussain Ali Nayeri.
The motive of the attack is not known, police started investigation According to reports, the attacker was an employee of the Justice Department. According to Iran International, many people have been arrested from the court house in Tehran. Officials said an investigation has begun to find out the motive behind the attack.
An attempt to murder Rajini was also made in 1988. During that time a magnetic bomb was fitted in his bike. At the same time, according to the US Treasury Department, the US had banned the second judge, Moghiseh, in 2019.
Iran is the country with the highest number of executions in the world. Iran is one of the countries with the highest number of death sentences in the world. In Iran, 901 people were given death sentence in 2024. These also include 31 women. Last year, 40 people were sentenced to death in one week in the month of December.
According to UN Human Rights, most of those executed last year were related to drugs and the nationwide protests following the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022.
Even 9 year old girls are hanged in Iran Despite signing the United Nations Convention not to give death penalty to minors, Iran is among the top countries where the maximum death penalty is given.
According to Amnesty International, in Iran, girls can be given death penalty after crossing the age of 9 years. For boys this age is 15. Between 2005 and 2015, about 73 children have been given death sentence.
Every youth in Iran who has been sentenced to death spends an average of seven years in prison before reaching the gallows. In many cases it is even 10 years. Under international laws, there is a ban on giving death sentence to a person under 18 years of age.
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