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The judiciary's announcements came aft a caller question of unrest that began connected Tuesday
Four radical person been sentenced to decease connected the complaint of "enmity against God" successful transportation with the caller anti-government protests successful Iran.
Revolutionary Courts successful Tehran said 1 of the unnamed "rioters" deed and killed a policeman with his car, the judiciary's Mizan quality bureau said.
The 2nd possessed a weapon and a gun, and the 3rd blocked postulation and caused "terror", it alleged.
The 4th was convicted of a weapon attack, Mizan reported precocious connected Tuesday.
Human rights activists condemned the decease sentences - which brought the full to 5 since Sunday - saying they were the results of unfair trials.
"Protesters don't person entree to lawyers successful the interrogation phase, they are subjected to carnal and intelligence torture to springiness mendacious confessions, and sentenced based connected the confessions," the manager of Norway-based Iran Human Rights, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, told AFP quality agency.
Although the judiciary did not disclose the identities of the 5 individuals sentenced to death, Amnesty International said accusation astir their charges had led quality rights activists to judge they were Mohammad Ghobadlou, Manouchehr Mehman Navaz, Mahan Sedarat Madani, Mohammad Boroughani and Sahand Nourmohammad-Zadeh.
It added that they were among astatine slightest 21 detainees charged with security-related offences that are punishable by decease nether Iran's Sharia-based ineligible system, including "enmity against God" and "corruption connected Earth".
At slightest 348 protesters person been killed and 15,900 others arrested successful a crackdown by information forces connected what Iran's leaders person portrayed arsenic foreign-backed "riots", according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), which is besides based extracurricular the country.
The women-led protests against clerical regularisation erupted aft the decease successful custody 3 months agone of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old pistillate who was detained by morality constabulary for allegedly breaking the strict rules connected hijabs.
The judiciary's announcements came aft 12 radical were reportedly killed amid a caller question of unrest that began connected Tuesday.
Activists called for 3 days of demonstrations and strikes to commemorate "Bloody November" - a notation to the deadly crackdown connected the past large nationwide protests that began connected 15 November 2019, erstwhile galore Iranians reacted angrily to a abrupt summation successful substance prices.
Videos posted connected societal media connected Tuesday showed crowds successful Tehran and different large cities chanting slogans against the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, including "death to the dictator".
Another video from a metro presumption appeared to amusement officers beating radical wrong a bid carriage, portion successful a third, radical were seen moving and falling implicit arsenic information forces allegedly opened fire.
On Wednesday night, authorities media reported that astatine slightest 5 radical were killed erstwhile equipped "terrorist elements" opened occurrence astatine protesters and constabulary officers astatine a marketplace successful the south-western metropolis of Izeh. The lawman politician Khuzestan state said the dormant included 3 men, a pistillate and a girl.
Opposition activistic corporate 1500tasvir besides said it had received reports of a precocious fig of casualties successful Izeh and accused information forces of sidesplitting a 10-year-old boy. It besides posted a video that it said showed immoderate protesters mounting occurrence to a seminary successful the city.
He had been lasting adjacent the location of different antheral who was killed by nonstop occurrence from information forces connected Tuesday, it said. Another 2 men were besides killed successful the adjacent metropolis of Sanandaj, it added.
Hengaw, which is based successful Norway, besides said that protesters seized power of the metropolis of Bukan, successful neighbouring West Azerbaijan province, connected Tuesday night.
State media reported that "rioters" changeable dormant 2 members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including a colonel, successful Bukan and Kamyaran connected Tuesday.
They besides said that a cleric who was a subordinate of the paramilitary Basij Resistance Force, which is controlled by the IRGC, died aft being deed by a Molotov cocktail successful the confederate metropolis of Shiraz.
State media person truthful acold reported the deaths of 38 information unit since the protests began. HRANA has enactment the toll astatine 43.
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