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By Antoinette Radford
BBC News
Two men person been hanged successful Iran for allegedly sidesplitting a subordinate of the subject during nationwide protests.
Mohammad Mahdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini were recovered blameworthy of "corruption connected earth" implicit their alleged engagement successful the decease of a paramilitary officer.
The household of 22-year-old Mr Karami accidental they were not permitted to conscionable him earlier helium was killed.
Prosecutors claimed paramilitary serviceman Ruhollah Ajamian was stripped bare and killed by a radical of mourners paying their respects to a recently-killed protester.
Protests against Iran's clerical constitution erupted successful September pursuing the decease successful custody of a pistillate who was detained by morality constabulary for allegedly wearing her hijab, oregon headscarf, "improperly".
At slightest 516 protesters person been killed truthful far, including 70 children, and 19,262 others arrested, according to the foreign-based Human Rights Activists' News Agency (HRANA). It has besides reported the deaths of 68 information personnel.
Many of those who person been detained aft protests person reportedly been subjected to enforced disappearance, incommunicado detention, torture and different ill-treatment.
The men were archetypal sentenced to decease successful December 2022 but they appealed against their sentences a aft they claimed they were tortured into making mendacious confessions.
Lawyers representing Mr Hosseini said helium was beaten and blindfolded portion successful prison.
"He was tasered and beaten connected the soles of his feet with a metallic rod," Ali Sharifzadeh Ardakani said.
Iran's Supreme Court upheld the condemnation connected 3 January.
Prior to his death, Mr Karami's lawyer said helium was connected a hunger strike arsenic helium had been refused the close to take his ain lawyer for the ineligible proceedings. Instead helium relied connected state-appointed attorneys.
Amnesty International described the proceedings arsenic a "fast-tracked unfair radical trial" and said Iranian authorities are seeking the decease punishment for astatine slightest 26 others.
Three different men person been sentenced to decease successful the aforesaid case, and different 11 received situation sentences.
The latest hangings bring the fig of radical executed successful Iran since December to four.
In December, 23-year-old Majidreza Rahnavard was hanged publically from a crane for allegedly sidesplitting 2 members of the information forces with a weapon and wounding 4 others and different 23-year-old, Mohsen Shekari, was killed for allegedly blocking a thoroughfare and wounding a subordinate of Iran's Basij unit with a knife.
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