Iran’s Supreme Court Again Rejects Retrial Request for Political Prisoner Sentenced to Death

Maziar Tataei, the lawyer of Iranian political prisoner Bakhshan Azizi, announced that the Supreme Court of the country has, for the second time, rejected the request for a retrial of this death row political prisoner.

On Sunday, April 6, Tataei wrote on the social media platform X that “the designated branch of the Supreme Court rejected the request for a retrial for Bakhshan Azizi without reviewing the case file, and deemed the lawyers’ defense as ‘unjustified’.”

He added: “Such a rejection by the designated branch requires reviewing the case file, which unfortunately was not done.”