Here’s a sentence that should shock anyone who still thinks the Islamic Republic has a justice system. Arghavan Fallahi is 24 years old. She is sitting in Evin Prison under a death sentence. She formally asked the judiciary to reopen her case and spare her life. Today, reports say that request was rejected. Which means she can now be executed at any moment. It just brakes my heart that she did everything to save her life. And this is the part where the Islamic Republic wants the world to look away and say, “Well, it’s an internal legal matter.” No. It isn’t. When a 24-year-old woman can be sentenced to death after a political prosecution, and the same system that arrested her, interrogated her, tried her and condemned her also gets to decide whether she deserves another hearing, that is not justice. That is the government acting as police, prosecutor, judge and executioner and then calling the whole thing due process. I wrote about Arghavan before because I did not want the world to learn her name after she was hanged. She is alive right now. And this is exactly when governments, journalists and human-rights organizations should speak before the execution, not after the obituary. Stop the execution of Arghavan Fallahi. #StopExecutionInIran

They hanged him at dawn.💔 The Islamic Republic executed rapper Erfan Mirzaei on Sunday, September 6, at the morning adhan, in Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan. No warning. No last call to his family. The rope and the silence. He was a young rapper. His crime was standing against a regime that kills to survive. He sang of freedom and hope in a country where a song can cost your life. Those who knew him remember a young man full of fire, art, and big dreams. The regime stole all of it in a single dawn, while the world slept. He was arrested during the January protests and executed in secret, while the Islamic Republic continues slaughtering January protesters in Iran's prisons under a total news blackout. His funeral is today, Say his name. Do not let the gallows have the last word.