Two more protesters sentenced to death in Iran
Two more protesters have been sentenced to death in Iran.
Two more protesters have been sentenced to death in Iran.
Iran's Supreme Court approved the death penalty for two people who participated in the protests, and decided to re-trial three people.
Five people were convicted of killing a member of Besic, a paramilitary militia affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, in Kerec, west of Tehran.
After examining the files of five people, the Supreme Court approved the death sentences of Muhammed Mehdi Karami and Seyid Muhammed Huseyni.
The same court annulled the verdicts of Hamid Gar-Hasanlu, Hüseyin Muhammedi and Reza Arya and decided to hold a retrial.
Within the scope of the same file, 14 people were sentenced to long prison sentences, but it was decided to rehearse their cases.
After the murder of a young Kurdish woman, Jina Amini, by the morality police in Tehran on 16 September, there has been a popular movement unprecedented since the revolution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
According to Human Rights Activists HRANA, at least 516 people, 70 of whom were under 18, were murdered between September 16 and January 2, and 19,204 were detained.
According to HRANA, protests spread to 161 cities. Other Iranian opposition sources state that the balance sheet is much heavier and add that at least 750 people were killed.
Iran's Human Rights Organization (IHR) stated that as of 27 December, at least 476 activists, 64 of them children and 34 women, were murdered, and 100 activists were under the risk of execution.