Regardless of Outrage, Iran Fingers Down Extra Dying Sentences Over Protests

Paris:

Iran has handed down three extra demise sentences for offences associated to the civil unrest triggered by Mahsa Amini’s demise, the judiciary mentioned Monday, fuelling worldwide protests in opposition to the regime.

The newest sentences — for 3 males convicted of killing three members of the safety forces — convey to 17 the official complete of detainees condemned to demise in reference to almost 4 months of protests.

4 executions have been carried out, whereas six of these convicted have been granted retrials.

Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights (IHR) mentioned Monday at the very least 109 protesters now in detention have been sentenced to demise or face prices that may carry capital punishment.

The Islamic republic has been rocked by a wave of protests for the reason that September 16 demise in custody of Kurdish Iranian Amini, 22, following her arrest for allegedly violating Iran’s strict gown code for girls.

Within the newest ruling, Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi and Saeed Yaghoubi have been sentenced to demise for “moharebeh” — or waging “battle in opposition to God” — underneath Iran’s Islamic sharia legislation, the judiciary’s Mizan On-line web site reported. They’ll nonetheless enchantment the decision.

Two others have been handed jail phrases for the incident that led to the deaths of the three members of the safety forces within the central province of Isfahan on November 16, Mizan mentioned.

In an up to date toll, IHR mentioned Monday that 481 protesters had been killed, together with 64 minors, for the reason that unrest started.

Iranian authorities say a whole bunch, together with members of the safety forces, have been killed.

‘Brutal repression’

Iran has blamed the unrest on hostile overseas forces, and supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei mentioned Monday that authorities had been dealing “severely and justly” with these implicated within the “riots”.

“There is no such thing as a doubt that there’s an financial and livelihood downside, however can this downside be solved by burning trash cans and rioting within the streets?” he mentioned, in accordance with his official web site.

“Undoubtedly, these actions are treason, and the accountable establishments cope with treason severely and justly.”

The crackdown and executions have sparked world outrage and new Western sanctions in opposition to Tehran.

Rights teams have additionally accused Iran of extracting compelled confessions and denying the 1000’s arrested due authorized course of.

Canada on Monday introduced a brand new spherical of sanctions over the regime’s “brutal repression of courageous Iranian voices”, mentioned International Minister Melanie Joly.

The identical day, the White Home condemned the most recent executions, saying the US stood with different nations demanding an “instant cessation” of the demise sentences.

“We condemn the executions of Mohammad Mehdi Karami & Mohammad Hosseini and the extra executions introduced right now,” Nationwide Safety Advisor Jake Sullivan tweeted, referring to 2 folks executed Saturday.

The European Union and several other European nations together with Austria, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway have summoned Iranian diplomats in protest on the newest executions.

In response to London-based rights group Amnesty Worldwide, Iran is second solely to China in its use of the demise penalty, with at the very least 314 folks executed in 2021.

Protest outdoors jail

Extra rallies in opposition to the Iranian regime have been held in London and Paris in latest days, whereas protests continued inside Iran.

The authorities have arrested a number of distinguished public figures, together with athletes and artists, who backed the protests.

Faezeh Hashemi, the daughter of late president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has been sentenced to 5 years in jail, her lawyer advised AFP on Monday.

Girls’s rights activist Hashemi, a former lawmaker, was arrested on September 27 accused of “propaganda” and actions in opposition to public order and nationwide safety, mentioned lawyer Neda Shams.

Protesters gathered late Sunday outdoors a jail within the northern metropolis of Karaj after stories that two inmates had been transferred to solitary confinement forward of their execution, in accordance with a number of rights teams primarily based overseas.

Protest monitor 1500tasvir mentioned a crowd, together with the mom of death-row inmate Mohammad Ghobadlou, demonstrated in entrance of Gohardasht jail “to save lots of the lives” of him and one other prisoner, Mohammad Boroghani.

Each had been convicted of assaults on safety forces and their appeals have been rejected.

The UN human rights workplace mentioned Monday it was “severely involved at information of imminent execution” of the 2 males.

The judiciary’s Mizan web site on Monday accused “hostile media” of reporting “rumours” of their deliberate execution.

“The enforcement of those convicts’ sentences just isn’t at present on the agenda on account of incomplete authorized proceedings,” it mentioned.

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