Iran protests: Crowd gathers outside prison in bid to stop executions - BBC

Dozens of radical demonstrated extracurricular a situation successful Iran overnight amid reports authorities were preparing to execute different 2 anti-government protesters.

Opposition activists posted videos showing radical chanting slogans successful beforehand of Rajai Shahr jailhouse successful the metropolis of Karaj.

The parent of Mohammad Ghobadlou, 1 of the 2 men astatine hazard of execution, appealed for clemency astatine the gathering.

Two protesters were hanged connected Saturday, prompting planetary condemnation.

The UN quality rights bureau deplored the "shocking" executions of Mohammad Mahdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, which it said followed "unfair trials based connected forced confessions".

A Revolutionary Court recovered the men blameworthy of "corruption connected Earth" implicit their alleged engagement successful the sidesplitting of a subordinate of the paramilitary Basij unit successful Karaj successful November. Both denied the complaint and said they were tortured.

They were the 3rd and 4th radical to beryllium executed successful transportation with the protests that erupted successful September pursuing the decease successful custody of a pistillate detained by morality constabulary for allegedly wearing her hijab "improperly".

Authorities person portrayed them arsenic "riots" and responded with lethal force.

It says that different 19,290 protesters person been arrested and that 111 of them are believed to "under the impending menace of a decease sentence", having been convicted of, oregon charged with, superior offences.

People gathered extracurricular Rajai Shahr situation connected Sunday nighttime aft activists warned that Mohammad Ghobadlou and Mohammad Boroughani had been transferred to solitary confinement successful mentation for execution.

Ghobadlou's mother, who has antecedently said her lad has bipolar disorder, was filmed telling the assemblage that 50 doctors had signed a petition calling connected the judiciary main to found a committee to reappraisal her son's intelligence health.

"If helium believed successful God, helium would person responded to these 50 doctors," she said, asserting that her lad is "ill".

1500 Tasvir besides posted videos purportedly from the country astir the situation successful which gunshots could beryllium heard.

The activistic corporate declared aboriginal connected Monday that the protestation had stopped the executions "at slightest up to this moment".

Ghobadlou, 22, had his decease condemnation upheld by the Supreme Court connected 24 December. He was convicted of "enmity against God" aft being accused of driving into a radical of policemen during a protestation successful Tehran successful September, sidesplitting 1 of them and injuring others.

Mohammad Boroughani, 19, was tried alongside Ghobadlou and was besides convicted of "enmity against God".

He was accused of allegedly wielding a machete, mounting occurrence to a provincial authorities gathering and injuring a information officer. He was besides accused of "encouraging" others to enactment successful protests via societal media.

Amnesty International said helium was recovered blameworthy aft proceedings that "bore nary resemblance to a meaningful judicial trial".

In a abstracted improvement connected Monday, the judiciary announced that a tribunal successful Isfahan had sentenced to decease 3 radical implicit an onslaught during protests successful the metropolis connected 16 November successful which 3 information unit were changeable dead.

Saleh Mirbasheri Boltaqi, Majid Kazemi Sheikh-Shabani, and Saeed Yaqoubi Kordsofla were convicted of "enmity against God".

Two different defendants were sentenced to situation implicit their alleged engagement successful the attack, including nonrecreational footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani. Nasr-Azadani, 26, was jailed for 16 years aft being recovered blameworthy of 3 charges including "assisting successful enmity against God".