Iran Supreme Court Accepts Appeals Of Two Protesters Sentenced To Death - I24NEWS - i24NEWS

Iran's Supreme Court accepted the appeals of 2 protesters sentenced to decease owed to flaws successful investigating their cases, the country's judiciary said connected Saturday.

"The Supreme Court accepted the appeals of Mohammad Qobadloo and Saman Saidi Yasin, accused of the caller riots," the judiciary's Mizan news bureau reported. "Due to probe deficiencies, the Supreme Court has referred them to the aforesaid courts for re-examination."

Nationwide unrest erupted successful mid-September aft the decease successful custody of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian pistillate Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by morality constabulary enforcing the Islamic Republic's mandatory formal codification laws.

Iran hanged 2 protesters earlier this month: Mohsen Shekari, 23, was accused of blocking a main roadworthy successful September and wounding a subordinate of the paramilitary Basij unit with a knife. Majid Reza Rahnavard, 23, who was accused of stabbing to decease 2 Basij members, was publically hanged from a operation crane.

Amnesty International said 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."

Qobadloo was charged with sidesplitting a constabulary cause and injuring 5 others during the protests.

Yasin, a Kurd who raps astir inequality, oppression and unemployment, was accused of attempting to termination information forces and singing revolutionary songs.

Rights radical HRANA said that arsenic of Friday 506 protesters were killed, including 69 minors. It said 66 members of the information forces were besides killed. As galore arsenic 18,516 protesters are believed to person been arrested, it said.

A apical authorities information assemblage said aboriginal this period that 200 people, including members of information forces, had mislaid their lives successful the unrest.