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Iranian protester hanged hours after marrying his imprisoned fiancée over jail phone line
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Iranian activist Sheyda Rahbari details the surge in executions of political dissidents by the terrorist Islamic regime. She notes the regime’s increasing pressure on its people, openly threatening them with arrest and execution. Rahbari cites the execution of an 18-year-old protestor, Amir Hussein Hamedi, as a heartbreaking example of the regime’s brutality.
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An Iranian anti-regime protester was hanged at dawn Oct. 5 inside Isfahan Central Prison, just hours after marrying his imprisoned fiancée over a jail phone line, The Times reported Thursday.
Alireza Sepahi, 25, was executed alongside co-defendant Alireza Raisi after being sentenced to death in connection with anti-government demonstrations at Isfahan’s Alikhani Square on Jan. 8., according to Human Rights Iran.
Sepahi and his bride, student activist Mahshad Keshani, 22, knew and loved each other before being arrested during anti-regime demonstrations, the report said.
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Alireza Sepahi, 25, was executed alongside co-defendant Alireza Raisi after being sentenced to death in connection with anti-government demonstrations at Isfahan’s Alikhani Square. (Iran Human Rights)
Keshani, currently serving a five-year sentence, pushed for an informal wedding Sunday as fears mounted that Sepahi’s execution was imminent following a final family summons.
The couple exchanged vows over the phone from inside Isfahan prison, joined by their fathers.
Human rights lawyer Amirsalar Davoudi facilitated the ceremony by reading the vows for the fathers to bless.
Keshani’s family gave a copy of the Quran, a saffron rock candy and a single red rose as a traditional dowry.
«It was Mahshad’s idea,» Davoudi told The Times. «Even now, I wonder how one young woman can possess such courage.»
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Iranians attend an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 9, 2026. (UGC via AP)
Davoudi recalled warning Keshani about the permanent nature of the decision. «I told her, ‘My dear, you understand that this cannot simply be undone?’» Davoudi said.
«She said, ‘Mr Davoudi, I love Alireza.’»
When Davoudi presented the proposal to Sepahi, the young man broke down in tears. «Alireza was crying, and something deeply painful and beautiful happened. Even the prison officers began to cry,» Davoudi said.
The ceremony held no formal authority to halt the execution. Sepahi had previously survived a scheduled hanging in July after suffering a heart attack on his way to the gallows. Authorities then rescheduled the sentence after he regained consciousness.
On Monday morning, hours after the vows were spoken, Sepahi was hanged.
IRAN’S REGIME CAME FOR TEENAGE TWINS. THEIR FATE OFFERS A GLIMPSE OF TEHRAN’S WIDENING DEATH CAMPAIGN
Iranian security forces escalated from pellet guns to live ammunition during protests. (Getty)
He is among seven defendants executed in the Alikhani Square case, in which 12 men were accused in the deaths of four security personnel.
Following the hanging, Sepahi’s family was reportedly prevented by authorities from burying their son in his hometown.
Davoudi condemned the Iranian regime’s actions. «I do not know how to come to terms with this,» Davoudi said.
«The regime is taking revenge on innocent young people for the humiliation it has suffered internationally.»
Human rights groups report Keshani remains in custody, facing additional security charges.
This came as Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), urged U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres to take immediate international action to halt executions and the killing of protesters in Iran, citing thousands of executions and decades of impunity for human rights abuses.
In a letter ahead of World Day Against the Death Penalty on Oct. 10, Rajavi called for international accountability, independent investigations and diplomatic and economic pressure on Tehran to end the executions.
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Woman, 87, dies after being carried from home of 70 years on stretcher during eviction in Spain
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The death of an 87-year-old woman who was evicted from her longtime home has intensified a political crisis in Spain, where nationwide protests over soaring housing costs have helped force an early election.
María del Carmen Abascal, known as «Maricarmen,» died Wednesday after being hospitalized following her eviction from a Madrid apartment where she had lived for seven decades, according to The Associated Press.
Her death came just days after Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a snap election for Nov. 29 after his government’s failure to pass emergency housing measures through Parliament.
The controversy has put renewed pressure on Sánchez’s Socialist Party as Spain grapples with widespread frustration over rising rents and housing affordability.
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People rally in downtown Madrid, Spain, to honor the memory of Maria del Carmen Abascal, 87, whose eviction from her home sparked nationwide protests Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
At the center of the uproar was Abascal’s Sept. 23 eviction, which drew national attention after images showed the elderly woman, who used a wheelchair, being carried from her apartment on a stretcher.
Police had cordoned off the street and removed demonstrators who attempted to stop the eviction.
The images sparked demonstrations in Madrid and other Spanish cities, turning Abascal into a symbol of the country’s housing crisis.
The real estate company responsible for her eviction had sought to lease the apartment at a substantially higher price, according to the AP.
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A view of the door of the home from which Maria del Carmen Abascal, 87, was evicted, sparking nationwide protests, with a sign reading «Rest in peace, Maricarmen,» in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026 (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Facing mounting public pressure, the company eventually agreed to allow Abascal to return to her home. She died before she could move back.
Her cause of death has not been disclosed.
After news of her death, demonstrators gathered outside Spain’s Parliament and in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol square, where some observed a minute of silence.
Protesters also chanted, «Maricarmen lives, the fight goes on!»
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A woman places flowers in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, near the entrance to the building where Maria del Carmen Abascal, 87, was evicted from her home, sparking nationwide protests. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Sánchez offered condolences in a statement on X.
«All my love to Maricarmen’s family and loved ones,» he wrote. «A hug as well to all of us who feel this loss as our own today. Rest in peace.»
Conservative opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo also expressed condolences and urged political leaders not to use the woman’s death for political gain.
«No campaign, no party, no use for political advantage,» he wrote. «When faced with the death of a person, we must only show respect.»
Abascal’s eviction and death have become a rallying point for housing activists demanding changes to Spain’s rental policies as the country prepares for its November election.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Minnesota Senate hopeful warns threat level rising amid rash of Somali gang crime, terror plot
The Republican Senate nominee in Minnesota is sounding the alarm about crime levels in the state amid a wave of Somali gang violence and a foiled terror plot by an American born to Somali parents.
«I hear a lot of concerns from Minnesotans on the campaign trail about crime, and no matter what form that crime takes, Minnesotans know that they feel under a level of threat that has increased lately here in Minnesota, and in the last week and just today,» Michele Tafoya, running as a Republican against Minnesota’s Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, told Digital on Wednesday. «We saw the arrest of an 18-year-old Somali American citizen to Somali parents arrested for a terrorist — planning a terrorist attack — at the Mall of America during a Hmong celebration.»
The suspect in that alleged terror plot is 18-year-old Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, born in the United States to Somali nationals who are naturalized American citizens, law enforcement sources told Digital. Federal court documents said that Mohamud was arrested after purchasing an AK-47-style rifle, magazines and ammunition from an undercover FBI agent whom he believed to be a loyal ISIS member.
MALL OF AMERICA TERROR PLOT THWARTED, SUSPECTED ISIS SYMPATHIZER ARRESTED, FBI ANNOUNCES
The FBI alleges Mohamud had digital communications beginning in December 2024 with a confidential human source he believed was a member of al-Shabaab, a Somali Islamist terror group and offshoot of ISIS.
«I can’t wait until I kill kuffar man. October 24 is the day insha Allah,» one of the messages said. «Kuffar» is a term used to refer to non-Muslims, and «insha Allah» means «God willing.»
The Hmong people are indigenous to Southeast Asia and boast a relatively large population in the United States.
«We have a large Hmong community here in Minnesota as well, and he basically stated that he wanted to take out anyone who was not a Muslim. He also noted that the Mall of America is owned by people who are Jewish,» Tafoya said. «And so this was his plan, and thank goodness for the FBI in Minneapolis here and local law enforcement for catching onto this plan and derailing it well in advance. This is a guy who has pledged his allegiance to ISIS. Again, he is of Somalian descent and terror is alive and well and thank God we averted this massive crisis.»
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The thwarted plot follows a rash of gang violence attributed to Somalis by law enforcement in the suburbs of Minneapolis.
Police in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, said a shooting during the local high school’s homecoming celebration last week was carried out by rival Somali gangs. Similarly, a shooting at a Bloomington, Minnesota, gas station over the weekend was attributed to Somali gangs. In the latter incident, more than 100 rounds of ammunition were fired.
«And we have had Somali-related — Somali gang-related — attacks here locally in our suburbs at a high school football game during homecoming, at a Catholic Church parking lot, at a gas station, and this is all just really started to peak here in the last couple of weeks. So it’s undeniable. Our law enforcement here are calling it out as the product of Somali gang violence, and we’ve got to identify it, and we have to find a way to deal with it.»
Tafoya also mentioned the Somali fraud scandals have enveloped Minnesota this year.
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«I don’t know how you can legislate that assimilation, but we simply cannot tolerate the level of crime,» she said. «We’ve seen it with fraud here. It’s in the paperwork that the Feeding Our Future fraud was largely … in terms of percentage, probably 98%, Somali people involved in that fraud,» she said.
«What I do think is any guests of this country who commits crime should be sent home with no pathway back,» she said. «If you’re coming here to be a guest of this country or to live in this country you cannot break our laws, and if you’re an American, you cannot break our laws, period.»
Tafoya is not against immigration, noting that she’s the granddaughter of immigrants, and she has an adoptive Colombian daughter who is as patriotic as they come.
But she’s not going to stop in her mission to battle crime, no matter the background of the criminals, she said. She plans to be an «equal opportunity pain in the a–» to all of them, specifically mentioning corrupt politicians.
«I’m going to represent Minnesotans and Americans, and so there’s, there’s not going to be any limit on the way that I see crime. Crime is crime, and it’s going to be committed by a wide variety of people, and they all need to be held accountable and accountability has been in short supply here in Minnesota.
Fox News’ Bill Melugin contributed to this report.
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Balotaje en Brasil: Flávio Bolsonaro aventajó por cuatro puntos a Lula da Silva en el primer sondeo y sumó un respaldo clave
El senador ultraderechista Flávio Bolsonaro lidera el primer sondeo de cara a la segunda vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales de Brasil, con el 49% de la intención de voto, frente al 45% que recibe el presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
La primera encuesta de intención de voto previa a la segunda vuelta el 25 de octubre, divulgada este jueves por Datafolha, indica una diferencia de 4 puntos porcentuales entre ambos candidatos.
Según la encuestadora, ambos estarían técnicamente empatados, ya que el margen de error es de dos puntos porcentuales a más o a menos.
Poco después de anunciarse el sondeo, el candidato presidencial brasileño Augusto Cury, tercero en el primer turno, anunció su apoyo a Flávio Bolsonaro de cara al balotaje. Cury obtuvo el 2,89% de los sufragios, con 3.348.569 votos.
En una nota de su campaña divulgada este jueves, Cury afirmó que su apoyo no constituye “un cheque en blanco” y que estará sujeto al cumplimiento de principios como el de la transparencia, la responsabilidad fiscal y el respeto a las instituciones democráticas
El 94% de los encuestados ya decidió su voto
De acuerdo con el sondeo, un 5% de los encuestados pretende votar en blanco o anular su voto y solo un 1% dice que aún está indeciso.
Entre los que ya eligieron a un candidato, un 94% asegura que está totalmente decidido de su voto y un 6% admite que aún pueden cambiar.
Bolsonaro, aspirante por el ultraderechista Partido Liberal (PL), fue el más votado en la primera vuelta del pasado domingo, con el 47,03% de los votos, y Lula, postulado a la reelección por el progresista Partido de los Trabajadores (PT), lo siguió con el 45,16%.
El resultado de las urnas, sin embargo, contradijo las previsiones de todas las encuestas, que proyectaban un empate técnico pero con el líder progresista en primer lugar.
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