Amnesty International demands the immediate overturning of the death sentence for an Iranian political prisoner

Amnesty International is demanding the immediate overturning of the death sentence for Zahra Shahbaz Tabari, a 67-year-old political prisoner.

Amnesty International has issued a statement calling for the immediate annulment of the death sentence handed down to Zahra Shahbaz Tabari, a 67-year-old political prisoner held in Lakan Prison in Rasht, northern Iran. The organization emphasized that she was sentenced to death after a “grossly unfair trial” that lasted only ten minutes at the Revolutionary Court in Rasht.

In its statement, Amnesty International said that during the first month of her detention, security agents interrogated and threatened Shahbaz Tabari in an attempt to force a “coerced confession” to charges of “taking up arms” and “membership in an opposition group,” all of which she rejected.

According to the human rights organization, Shahbaz Tabari’s trial was conducted via video call from inside Lakan Prison, and she met her court-appointed lawyer for the first time during that single hearing.

The organization stressed that Iranian regime authorities continue to use the death penalty as a tool to suppress dissent and must immediately halt all executions.