Iran sentences three more to death after Mahsa Amini protests

Three other people accused of participating in demonstrations in Iran were sentenced to death this Wednesday (16), according to the news on the Judicial Authority’s Mizan Online website. These death sentences bring the number of people sentenced to death to five since protests began two months ago after the detention of 22-year-old Kurdish Mahsa Amini for violating the strict dress code. requires women to wear the Islamic headscarf in public.

Protests were brutally suppressed. Hundreds of people were arrested.

One of the three convicted today drove his car into police officers and killed one; According to the charges, the second injured a security guard with a knife and the third tried to block traffic and “sow the seeds of terror”.

These death sentences bring the number of those sentenced to death since the beginning of the protests to five.

Not long ago, Trial Balance Online stated that one “rebel” had been sentenced to death.

Also on Sunday, a court in Tehran sentenced a man guilty of “to burn down a government building, disturb public order, assemble and conspiracy to commit crimes against national security, be hostile to God and spread corruption” to death. land”.

Another five were sentenced to between five and 10 years in prison for “conspiracy to assemble and conspiracy to commit crimes against national security and disrupt public order”.

In the same case, the court sentenced another person to death for “frightening people on the street with a knife, burning a citizen’s motorcycle and attacking a person with a knife”. Trial Balance Online????????

According to the agency, since this is a court of first instance, those convicted can appeal.

On Tuesday (15), traders across the country folded their arms to protest Mahsa’s death and did not open their businesses.

More than 2,000 indictments

More than 2,000 people have been prosecuted, half of them in Tehran, since the protests began two months ago, court data shows.

The official IRNA news agency reported that two revolutionary guards and a paramilitary officer were killed during the demonstrations on Tuesday.

Citing a military source, IRNA reported that Revolutionary Guards colonel Reza Almassi was killed “by bullets fired by the agitator” in the Kurdish-dominated town of Bukhan in northwest West Azerbaijan.

According to the same source, Reza Azarbar, another member of the Revolutionary Guards, was shot dead by unidentified people in Kamyaran district of Kurdistan (northwest).

In Shiraz (south), a member of Bassidj, a paramilitary militia affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, was killed “during the turmoil” Tuesday night. go????????

The agency also reported that a student died from blows to the head during a demonstration.

According to the statement, a student from the Bassidji religious school in Shiraz was “targeted by a Molotov cocktail thrown by protesters and was subsequently hospitalized”. goHe quotes Fars state prosecutor Mustafa Bahrain.

Since the protests began in mid-September, Iranian state media have reported that more than 30 members of the security forces have been killed in “riot-related” incidents.

In addition, at least six members of the Revolutionary Guards were killed in violence in the city of Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchistan Province (southeast), on September 30.

(with AFP)