Iran conducts first protest-related execution - Al Jazeera English

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The idiosyncratic was convicted of injuring a information defender with a agelong knife, semi-official Tasnim quality bureau reports.

Iran says it has executed the archetypal captive known to beryllium convicted for an alleged transgression stemming from ongoing nationwide protests.

The idiosyncratic was convicted of injuring a information defender with a agelong weapon and closing disconnected a Tehran street, the semi-official Tasnim quality bureau reported connected Thursday.

Tasnim added that the Supreme Court had rejected the entreaty made by the suspect and justified the condemnation by saying the defendant’s actions represented a “crime of waging warfare against God”.

Iran has been rocked by protests since the September 16 decease of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died aft being detained by the country’s morality police.

Tasnim identified the idiosyncratic who was executed arsenic Mohsen Shekari but gave nary much details.

Authorities person been cracking down connected the protests and connected Monday, the elite Revolutionary Guards praised the judiciary for what it called its pugnacious basal and encouraged it to swiftly and decisively contented judgements for defendants accused of “crimes against the information of the federation and Islam”.

Judiciary spokesperson Masoud Setayeshi announced connected Tuesday that five radical indicted successful the sidesplitting of a Basij subordinate were sentenced to decease successful a verdict which they tin appeal.

Amnesty International has said the Iranian authorities are seeking the decease punishment for astatine slightest 21 radical successful what it called “sham trials designed to intimidate those participating successful the fashionable uprising that has rocked Iran”.

“The Iranian authorities indispensable instantly quash each decease sentences, refrain from seeking the imposition of the decease punishment and driblet each charges against those arrested successful transportation with their peaceful information successful protests,” it said.