IranWire:

ROGHAYEH REZAEI

Farshad Etemadifar spent his entire life in a remote village without running water, where residents still transport goods by donkey.

Now the 30-year-old faces execution after Iran’s Supreme Court rejected his third and final request for a retrial.

The court’s decision last week also applies to two co-defendants: Masoud Jame’i, a teacher who spent 25 years educating impoverished children, and Alireza Mardasi, according to documents obtained by IranWire.

All three men received sentences of two executions and one year in prison each on charges of “moharebeh” - waging war against God - and “corruption on Earth,” along with membership in the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization, a banned opposition group.

The verdicts came from Judge Ehsan Adibi-Mehr of the Ahvaz Revolutionary Court whose nickname is "judge of death" for his frequent use of capital punishment.

According to sources who spoke with IranWire, Etemadifar remained in bed all day after learning that his retrial request had been denied.

Political prisoners held alongside him in Ward 5 of Sheiban Prison in Ahvaz wept upon hearing the news.

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