Iran: second person sentenced to death after protests

Repression continues in Iran. Iranian justice on Tuesday handed down a second death sentence in three days to a “rebel,” Mizan Online, the judiciary’s agency, reported. Two months after the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman arrested for breaking the dress code, protests continue in Iran. Authorities condemn the “riots” and hundreds of people have been arrested.

On Sunday, a Tehran court had already sentenced to death a man found guilty of “burning a government building, disturbing the peace, gathering and conspiring to commit a crime against national security, being an enemy of God and corruption on earth.”

Five other convictions

Another five people were also sentenced to terms of five to ten years in prison for “conspiracy and conspiracy to commit crimes against national security and disturbing the peace.”

In the same trial, the Revolutionary Court sentenced another man to death on charges of “terrorizing people in the street with bladed weapons, setting fire to a citizen’s motorcycle, and stabbing a person,” Mizan Online reported on Tuesday evening. “The defendant is an enemy of God for using edged weapons,” the verdict says.

Nearly 14,000 people are incarcerated, according to the UN.

Convicts can appeal to the court of first instance, the agency clarifies. Since the protests began, the regime has detained about 14,000 people, including children, according to the UN. Human rights organizations have warned from the outset that the regime could launch a campaign of executions to quell any protest.

On Friday, popular rapper Saman Yasin was arrested for supporting protesters on social media. Another rapper, Tumaj Salehi, was arrested on September 30, according to the Guardian. They also face the death penalty.