TEHRAN The authorities of Will executed This Thursday, the 8th, the first will be sentenced to death for taking part in the protests that have rocked the country since midSeptember this year. Mohsen Shekari was executed early this morning after being sentenced to death on November 29.
According to Iranian authorities, the man “stabbed a member of the Islamic security forces, blocked a road and created terror in Tehran,” Iran’s Mizan news agency reported. These crimes were linked to the “war against God” verdict, which, like then, carried the death penalty.
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After the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran, protests spread around the world. Photo: Henry Nicholls/Portal
The agency administered by the country’s judiciary also said that the executed man confessed during the trial to having received “payments” for attacking police officers and therefore stabbed the militia officer, who needed 13 stitches after the attack. Capital punishment executions in Iran usually take place by hanging, local media reported.
Shekari is the first protester to be executed for his part in protests that have rocked Iran since the young woman’s death. Mahsa Amini, who was in morality police custody after allegedly inappropriately wearing the Islamic scarf. The protests began with the death of the 22yearold Kurdish girl but have evolved to include calls for the end of the Islamic Republic founded by the Ayatollah. Ruhola Khomeini 1979
So far 11 people have been sentenced to death for taking part in the demonstrations. There is still an undetermined number of prison sentences handed down by the judicial authorities in Iran. Amnesty International reported that at least 28 of the 2,000 protesters had been sentenced to death. According to the NGO, more than 400 people have died and at least 15,000 have been arrested in nearly three months of protests. “Human Rights in Iran”based in Oslo🇧🇷
Recently, Iran even announced the abolition of the vice squad after months of protests in the country. A statement was released by the Attorney General and circulated in state media. However, activists and human rights monitors denounced that the announcement was merely a disinformation strategy and did not lessen the theocratic regime’s repression of protesters and women in the country.
Reports from Tehran suggest that morals patrols are continuing in the city’s streets, and state media question the validity of the country’s Attorney General’s announcement to the Islamic government. 🇧🇷EFE and AP