Since the begining of presidency of the so called "moderate"  Hassan Rouhani in Iran last year, the executions in Iran have risen to an alarmingy high level. over 800 executions so far. many of them for political reasons. 

 

Latest person to be sentenced to death is Mr Arzhang davoodi, a teacher and human rights activist who after spending more than 10 years in jail, had his sentence "upgraded" to death, on charge of being a "Mohareb". (Mohareb = Enemy of god in islamic regime's penal code).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arzhang_Davoodi

 

 

Arzhang Davoodi (born c. 1952)[1] is an Iranian democracy activist, teacher, and author. In 2002, he and Amir Abbas Fakhravar co-founded the Confederation of Iranian Students (CIS), an organization that aims to institute democracy in Iran.[2]

Davoodi was arrested in October 2003 after criticizing human rights conditions in Iran in the documentary Forbidden Iran, particularly the death in custody of Canadian-Iranian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi.[3] He was tried in 2005 by the Islamic Revolutionary Court for "spreading propaganda against the system" and "establishing and directing an organization opposed to the government". The court found him guilty and sentenced him to 15 years' imprisonment and 75 lashes; as of August 2012, the latter part of his sentence had not been implemented.[1] Amnesty International protested the sentence, designating Davoodi a prisoner of conscience.[1]

Davoodi served portions of his sentence in several different prisons, including Evin Prison.[1] In 2005, he joined fellow prisoners Hojjat Zamani, Bina Darab-Zand, Valiollah-Feyz Mahdavi, Mehrdad Lohrasbi, Farzad Hamidi, and Jaafar Iqdami in a hunger strike to protest their confinement with violent offenders in Rajaii Shahr.[4] Human Rights Watch called the six "political prisoners", "being held for no reason other than their expression of peaceful political views", and urged that they be released.[5]

In August 2012, a new charge of "enmity against God", which carries a possible death sentence, was brought against Davoodi. Amnesty International stated that the charge appeared to be linked to the release by CIS of a recording in which Davoodi called for "freedom and democracy".[1]