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Iran has carried retired the archetypal known execution of a captive arrested during the months-long protests that person rocked the state since the alleged constabulary killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, authorities media reported.
The captive — identified by Mizan, the news tract of the country’s judiciary, arsenic Mohsen Shekari — was accused of attacking a paramilitary defender with a weapon “in a mode that resulted successful 13 stitches” and of disturbing nationalist bid by blocking a thoroughfare of Iran’s capital, Tehran, during the protests. He was executed connected Thursday, Mizan said.
The execution marks a important escalation successful authorities’ bloody crackdown connected the protestation movement, which began successful September successful effect to Amini’s decease portion successful the custody of Iran’s alleged morality constabulary but has grown successful the past 2 months to encapsulate broader dissatisfaction against the country’s clerical leadership.
Human rights groups estimate that astatine slightest a twelve radical person been sentenced to decease for crimes allegedly committed during the protests. And they pass that more could look the decease penalty aft being charged with superior crimes. But experts had said a trial of Tehran’s effect would beryllium if it carried retired immoderate executions.
“Iranian authorities person executed a protester, sentenced to decease successful amusement trials without immoderate owed process,” tweeted Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, manager of the Norway-based radical Iran Human Rights. “His sanction is #MohsenShekari — He was hanged aboriginal this morning.”
His execution “must beryllium [met] with STRONG reactions different we volition beryllium facing regular executions of protesters,” wrote Amiry-Moghaddam. “This execution indispensable person accelerated applicable consequences internationally.”
Shekari was convicted connected Nov. 20 of “moharebeh,” a superior transgression that means “waging warfare against God” successful Farsi, and sentenced to decease by Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, Mizan said. Shekari’s lawyers’ petition to entreaty his condemnation was reportedly denied.
The execution comes against the backdrop of a three-day labour strike that was the largest the state had seen successful decades and has raised unit connected Iranian authorities to respond.
According to Mizan, which cited the indictment, Shekari was arrested connected Sept. 25 successful the Sattarkhan country of Tehran. He was allegedly blocking the thoroughfare and holding a weapon successful his hand.
Shekari past attacked a subordinate of the Basij, a unpaid militia connected to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, hitting his near enarthrosis and injuring him “in a mode that resulted successful 13 stitches.”
Political prisoners are typically tried successful revolutionary courts, a parallel-track ineligible strategy designed to support the Iranian regime, resulting successful a judicial strategy stacked against the protesters.
Human Rights Watch said past twelvemonth that the courts “regularly autumn acold abbreviated of providing just trials and usage confessions apt obtained nether torture arsenic grounds successful court.”
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