Iranian Man’s Final Want Earlier than Execution

A video surfaced as we speak that confirmed Rahnavard expressing what was most likely his final needs.

A 23-year-old executed by Iran in reference to the anti-government protests, has left directions earlier than his demise that nobody is to mourn him or learn Quran at his grave. Majidreza Rahnavard was hanged in public on Monday within the metropolis of Mashhad.  

Rahnavard’s execution befell 4 days after Mohsen Shekari, additionally aged 23, was executed on costs of wounding a member of the safety forces. It was the primary case of demise penalty getting used towards a protester, defying worldwide outcry.

A video surfaced as we speak that confirmed Rahnavard expressing what was most likely his final needs. In it, Rahnavard, blindfolded and flanked by two masked guards, is seen talking to the digicam.

“I do not need anybody to mourn upon my grave. I do not need them to learn Quran or pray. Simply rejoice and play celebrating music,” learn the supers. The authenticity of the video couldn’t be verified by NDTV.

Darya Safai, Member of the Belgian Parliament and a Girls’s rights activist, tweeted:

Simply earlier than he is hanged on Dec.12 by Iran’s regime,they interrogate #MajidrezaRahnavard

His final phrases:I do not need Quran to be learn or prayed on my grave,simply rejoice

Sharia legislation is the explanation he is gone
His verdict:Warfare with Allah

Solely as a result of he demonstrated for his rights pic.twitter.com/1uQpYhpGIq

— Darya Safai MP (@SafaiDarya) December 15, 2022

Rahnavard was sentenced to demise by a courtroom for stabbing to demise two members of the safety forces and wounding 4 different folks, the judiciary’s Mizan On-line information company reported.

The director of Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, stated Rahnavard “was sentenced to demise primarily based on coerced confessions after a… present trial”, reported information company AFP.

“The general public execution of a younger protester, 23 days after his arrest, is one other severe crime dedicated by the Islamic republic’s leaders,” he was quoted as saying by AFP.

The protest monitor social media channel 1500tasvir stated his household had been knowledgeable of the execution solely after it was carried out, reported AFPt. It revealed footage of a final assembly between the condemned man and his mom, saying she had left with no thought he was about to die.

They allowed #MajidRezaRahnavard‘s mom to go to him, and did not converse of execution in any respect. She left smiling and hoping that her son could be launched quickly.
This morning she arrived when her son’s murderers have been burying his useless physique alone.#StopExecutionInIranpic.twitter.com/9n2k02uE60

— 1500tasvir_en (@1500tasvir_en) December 12, 2022

The anti-government protests have shaken the regime for months. Iran calls the protests “riots” and says they’ve been inspired by its international foes.

The protests began 4 months in the past after the custody demise of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish-Iranian arrested by the morality police for allegedly breaching the Islamic republic’s strict gown code for girls, was executed.

The protests characterize the most important problem to the regime for the reason that Shah’s ouster in 1979 and have been met with a crackdown that activists say goals to instil worry among the many folks.

The executions drew a pointy rebuke from Iran’s arch-foe the US, with State Division spokesman Ned Worth saying they “underscore how a lot the Iranian management really fears its personal folks”.