Iran hangs protester in first known execution related to mass demonstrations - CNN

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Iran has executed a antheral for injuring a paramilitary serviceman successful the archetypal known execution linked to protests that person swept the state since September, authorities media reported Thursday.

Mizan Online, a quality bureau affiliated with Iran’s judiciary, and the semi-official Tasmin quality bureau some named the protester arsenic Mohsen Shekari. He was reportedly convicted of “waging warfare against God” for stabbing a subordinate of the Basij paramilitary unit astatine a protestation successful Tehran connected September 23.

Shekari was sentenced to decease connected October 23, and executed by hanging connected Thursday morning, according to Mizan Online. It was the archetypal execution connected to the protests to beryllium publically reported by authorities media.

Iran Human Rights, a non-profit rights enactment which has members wrong and extracurricular the country, has called for a beardown planetary effect to the execution.

“His execution indispensable beryllium met with the strongest imaginable presumption and planetary reactions. Otherwise, we volition beryllium facing regular executions of protesters who are protesting for their cardinal quality rights,” the group’s manager Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam told CNN.

Amiry-Moghaddam said that Shekari was executed without immoderate owed process oregon entree to a lawyer of his prime successful a “show trial” by the Revolutionary Court.

Several European governments powerfully criticized Iran for the execution. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said successful a tweet that Shekari “was tried and executed successful a perfidious rushed proceedings for disagreeing with the regime.”

“The Iranian regime’s inhumanity knows nary bounds,” she said. “But the menace of execution volition not suffocate people’s tendency for freedom.”

French overseas ministry spokeswoman Anne-Claire Legendre said France condemned the execution successful the “strongest terms” and “reiterated its strongest committedness to the close to peaceful protest.” She said the demands by the protesters are “legitimate and indispensable beryllium heard.”

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said helium was “outraged by the tragic quality of the archetypal execution of a protestor successful Iran,” portion the overseas ministry of the Czech Republic, which presently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, described the quality arsenic “appalling,” and said “the Iranian authorities uses outrageously disproportionate penalties to instill panic successful its population.”

Iran’s erstwhile president Mohammad Khatami connected Tuesday urged the existent government to beryllium much lenient with protesters.

In a connection up of Students’ Day connected December 7 – which marks the day of the execution of 3 assemblage students by Iranian constabulary nether Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s authorities successful 1953 – the reformist erstwhile person said the authorities indispensable perceive to the demonstrators earlier it is excessively late.

Other Iranian nationalist figures person besides precocious called connected the authorities to instrumentality enactment to perceive and support protesters.

Prominent Iranian Sunni cleric Molavi Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi connected Tuesday called connected the country’s judiciary to analyse and prosecute individuals abusing women successful prisons.

Several Iranians person been sentenced to decease by execution during the nationwide protests, which were sparked by the decease of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini aft she was apprehended by the state’s morality constabulary for allegedly not wearing her hijab properly.

Her decease touched a nervus successful the Islamic Republic, with salient nationalist figures coming retired successful enactment of the movement, including apical Iranian histrion Taraneh Alidoosti. The protests person since coalesced astir a scope of grievances with the authoritarian regime.

According to Amnesty International, arsenic of November, Iranian authorities are seeking the decease punishment for astatine slightest 21 radical successful transportation with the protests.

At slightest 458 radical person been killed successful the unrest since September, according to Norway-based Iran Human Rights connected Wednesday.

CNN cannot independently verify the fig of radical facing executions successful Iran, oregon the latest apprehension figures oregon decease tolls related to the protests, arsenic precise figures are intolerable for anyone extracurricular the Iranian authorities to confirm.

Since the demonstrations began, authorities person unleashed a deadly crackdown, with reports of forced detentions and carnal maltreatment being utilized to people the country’s Kurdish number group.

In a caller CNN investigation, covert grounds revealed intersexual unit against protesters, including boys, successful Iran’s detention centers since the commencement of the unrest.

Meanwhile, Iran’s Supreme Leader has praised the Basij – a helping of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard – for its relation successful the crackdown, describing the protestation question as “rioters” and “thugs” backed by overseas forces.

In precocious November, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said Iran was successful a “full-fledged quality rights crisis,” and called for an autarkic probe into violations of quality rights successful the country.