Trump criticises US media over leaked intel claiming Iran nuclear sites largely intact – as it happened

Since Israel’s attacks on Iran began on 13 June, Iranian authorities have executed at least six men — three of whom were hanged earlier on Wednesday — and arrested many more over accusations of “collaboration” with Israel.

The Iranian parliament has fast-tracked a bill that equates people who are accused of espionage or collaboration with hostile governments, including the US and Israel, with vaguely defined national security charges like “enmity against God” and “corruption on earth”.

“It is part of a wider campaign of repression where the Iranian state uses the death penalty as a tool to instil fear,” Kyinzom Dhongdue, advocacy manager at Amnesty International Australia, told SBS News.

“If you look at the number of death penalties that have taken place in Iran over the past year, 942 people have been executed. The death penalty is a very common penalty or the punishment used by the Iranian state against people who have views that are against the state.”

Dhongdue said they are also alarmed by the fate of people who are trapped in Iranian prisons.

“These are people who have been arrested and charged after grossly unfair trials.

“People do not have access to lawyers of their choosing. And many of the confessions were forced under duress, under torture.”

— Gabrielle Katanasho, Niv Sadrolodabaee and Jennifer Scherer