The man who was arrested for tossing his shoes at Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a speech earlier this month could face execution for his act of defiance. Rashid Shahbandi, who has been in custody since his arrest at the time of the incident, has been tortured and is facing heavy punishment with a strong possibility of a death sentence, opposition groups told the Iran Khabar Agency, an independent news service.

An Iranian woman whose sentence of death by stoning for adultery provoked an international outcry could be executed by hanging instead, the country's judicial authorities have indicated. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 44-year-old mother of two, was convicted of conducting an "illicit relationship outside marriage" in 2006 and has since been kept in Tabriz prison in the west of Iran.

Abdolreza Ghanbari's death sentence order has been sent to the Revolutionary Court's Implementation Division. According to HRANA reports, the Amnesty and Clemency Commission has rejected Ghanbari s clemency request and has sent the case to the Implementation Division.

Abbas Tavakoli Borazjani is a 38 year old political prisoner locked up in Rajai-Shahr Prison. The decision announced by the Supreme Court was verbally communicated to Abbas Tavakoli Borazjani s family but has not been given to the prisoner yet.