Tehran: protests over the execution of a detainee in the mobilizations

Dozens of people demonstrated today in silence in western Tehranin several of whose universities protest acts were also carried out for the first execution, on the 8th, of a detainee during the mobilizations that have shaken the country since mid-September.

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Security forces with a large presence at the protest site have attacked protesters, according to unverified video posted by activists.

Also, students from the universities of the capital and other cities of the country, held today a day of strike as a protest.

In Tehran, at the “Alzahra” university, an exclusive women’s university, female students carried signs reading “no to execution”, while at the Faculty of Social Sciences students displayed messages condemning the detention of the university students

At Beheshti University, students showed their support with silent marches, according to videos posted on social media.

On the 8th, the Iranian judiciary implemented the first death sentence for a 23-year-old detainee named Mohsen Shekarí, who was sentenced to the maximum penalty for wounding a basiji -Islamic militant- with a knife and blocking a street in Tehran .

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The riots began in mid-September after the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish girl, who had been arrested for allegedly wearing the Islamic headscarf incorrectly, but they have evolved and now the protesters are calling for the end of the Republic Islamic, founded by Ayatollah Ruholá Khomeini in 1979.

The judicial authorities have so far sentenced 11 people to death for their participation in the demonstrations and an unknown number to prison terms.

Amnesty International has denounced that at least 28 of the 2,000 defendants for the protests face death sentences.

In nearly three months of protests, more than 400 people have died and at least 15,000 have been detained, according to the Oslo-based NGO Iran Human Rights.

Source: Elcomercio

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