Iran publicly executes the second sentenced to death for the protests that shake the country

Iran publicly executed on Monday a second convicted for his participation in the protests that have shaken the country since September and despite international outrage for applying the death penalty to those involved in the demonstrations

Majesty Rahnavard He was sentenced to death by a court in the city of Mashhad (northeast) for killing two members of the security forces.

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He was hanged in public and not inside the prisonreported Mizan Online, the information agency for the judiciary.

This is the second protest-related execution, following the hanging on Thursday of Mohsen Shekari, a 23-year-old convicted of attacking and wounding a paramilitary.

Mizan Online also posted footage of Rahnavard’s executionin which a man is seen with his hands tied behind his back hanging from a rope attached to a crane.

“The public execution of a young protester, 23 days after his arrest, is another serious crime committed by the rulers of the Islamic Republic and a significant escalation in the level of violence against protesters”told AFP Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of the NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR), based in Norway.

“Majidreza Rahnavard was sentenced to death on the basis of a coerced confessionafter a manifestly unfair trial and a show trial”, he added.

Monday’s execution is the first in public in the context of the protests triggered by death on September 16, Mahsa Aminia 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish girl who died after being detained by the morality police for violating the strict dress code that women in the country must respect.

Since its creation in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran It has been rocked by several waves of protest, but this crisis is unprecedented in its duration, due to the fact that it occurs in several provinces, involves different ethnic groups and social classes, and includes direct calls for the end of the regime.

Iran’s judiciary said it had handed down eleven death sentences so far in connection with the protests, described by authorities as “riots.”

But activists say a dozen more people face charges carrying the death penalty.

“Moot Trials”

“No due process. show trials. This is how they want to stop the protests across the country,” said Omid Memarian, an analyst on Iran Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWIN).

Rahnavard was detained on November 19 while trying to flee the country, according to Mizan.. According to unverified information, she would be 23 years old.

According to Amnesty International, Mahan SadratSentenced to death after a summary and “unfair” trial on November 3, 22, was transferred on Saturday to Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj, near Tehran, “raising fears of imminent execution”.

He was found guilty of drawing a knife during the protests, which he strongly denied in court.

Amnesty also warned that the life of another young man, Sahand Nourmohammadzadehis in danger after being sentenced to death on November 6 for “demolishing the railings of a motorway and burning garbage containers and tires”.

Others sentenced to the same sentence include rapper Slove seyedi24, from the Kurdish minority of Iran. another rapper, Toomaj Salehiwho supported anti-regime protests, is accused of “corruption on earth” and could be sentenced to death, Iranian judicial authorities confirmed last month.

Last week, the United States, several European Union countries and the United Kingdom condemned the execution of Shekariand the German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, denounced an “unlimited contempt for human life”.

But human rights activists and NGOs are calling for a stronger reaction, including breaking off diplomatic relations with Iran and the expulsion of ambassadors in European capitals.

Source: Elcomercio

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